Your Five Things Right Now

1. good tea in nice ceramic cups
2. getting stuff done
3. being outside
4. getting to whatever book I'm reading first thing in the morning
5. Ella Fitzgerald reissues

1. Going to restaurants alone
2. Listening to records enough times that I can identify at least half the tracks by looking at the title
3. People watching at London Fields park
4. Anticipating week in Portugal
5. Judgement on PS4

1. 1973 Grateful Dead
2. Vaults of Vaarn
3. Finding new birds on the Merlin app
4. Heirloom beans
5. Going out to eat again

xp update the Yakuza thread so we can discuss pls

1. Maxi dresses
2. Aveda leave in conditioner
3. This birthday present
4. Stardew Valley
5. Freshly ground coffee

1. Terror of the future (and of looking for a job for the first time since 1998, at the age of ~60)
2. Navigating current work politics (see: Ownership, being exploited and undermined by)
3. Upcoming vacation to Asheville NC
4. learning to "velvet" proteins and making a lot of stir-fries
5. Jamaican rum

4. learning to "velvet" proteins and making a lot of stir-fries

This makes such a big difference to the final version!

coffee
cloudy mornings
this amazing john varvatos shirt i have
that picture of ohtani with the funyuns
rusted out side view mirrors

A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang - 1991)

Watching Every Gel set on Youtube over and over for the last two years.

Lay's Cuban Sandwich Potato Chips

Lay's BLT Sandwich Potato Chips

An Evening At The Improv Youtube channel

'padam padam' video
humor and lightness
remembering the aces and acres of red-orange globemallow blooming in the desert i saw last weekend
the progress of spring and summer
afternoon thunderstorms

Looking forward to buying and living in my first flat
Susanna Clark's 'Piranesi' as an audiobook
Learning more about Indian/Desi cookery, including some delicious Gobi 65 which I'm perfecting
Brazilian Forró music
Getting into DnD

my new sofa and armchair, I got a grant towards the sofa so went well above my usual low standards and the armchair was free. I just needed to carry the fucker for 3/4 mile and it was worth the effort and sore back.

my redecorated living room. It's now a warm grey colour called tranquil dawn that sounds like a fictional neo-fascist party, but is lovely.

slow cooker curries

finishing challenging and hard level kakuro puzzles on my phone

-going through the Adderley Brothers '60s and '70s discographies
-eating lots of foods after not being able to for a long time due to health issues
-breathing and not internalizing tension or anxiety for no reason
-rehabbing tendonitis in my left hand after a stupid fall, which is helping to make sure I'm playing drums as relaxed as possibly can
-playing Hollow Knight (although I'm giving it a break because of the above)

my prescription sunglasses
medronho
vegan hot dogs & pickles
the Black Jazz record label
my cat lying in a sun patch

Ford Broncos
Dexys Midnight Runners
Double New England IPAs
Skinny Jeans
Photoshop Timeline

Lay's Cuban Sandwich Potato Chips

Lay's BLT Sandwich Potato Chips

we are in a golden age of gimmick chip flavors. the Doritos hot mustard ones are so good

1. victor wembanyama
2. getting szn tickets to my local soccer (football) concern
3. growing my hair out the longest it's been since hs
4. writing all my graduating seniors sentimental letters
5. getting good enough at super smash brothers to defeat actuals youths today

1. Watching a pair of hawks (maybe eagles; they're big) circle slowly over the trees behind my building every day around 4-5 PM
2. Writing my next book (a biography of Cecil Taylor)
3. Getting a driver's license after 30 years without one
4. Preparing to put out two CDs on my label
5. Eating JJ's Bakery Fruit Pies

'padam padam' video
It's so simple but so strong.

1. Camile Thai spicebox.
2. Being almost finished a dull writing job that seems to have gone well.
3. Baby seagulls on my roof.
4. Local strawberries.
5. Actual summery sunshine.

1. Top Chef World All-Stars (TV program)
2. Raleigh Mennonite Church (church)
3. Invasion of Gobakhan (Magic: the Gathering card)
4. Mogul, season 3: Chopped and Screwed (podcast)
5. The Furminator (pet grooming tool)

Honorable mention: wxPython (Python library)

1. Half watching a couple of episodes of a TV show. It's called Succession
2. Reading every single scrap of discourse on the show, including how it ends. Discourse is king.
3. Laughing at the guys (it's usually guys) who say they will not watch any episodes of Succession. Or any TV. Ever again.
4. Hating the UK in early June. It's cold, which means I will be stuck inside. Watching Succession.
5. Bored of Succession. Taking a big sip of coffee and going all in to be destroyed by AI. In fact this AI bot took over my ilx account and chose to post unfunny stuff about Succession.

listening to podcasts
Trying to get through a pile of books I keep adding to.
Watching interviews with writers who I've picked up books by, now that Virgin has Youtube and Vimeo on my tv.
Looking around for a worthwhile stereo I can afford. Seems pretty limited in option.
the energy of the green when plants are florurishing right now.seems pretty tangible

Actual answers:

- Enjoying the deepening of my yoga practice, through my yoga teacher training
- not buying any books and watching the pile slowing decrease to a about a couple (by mid-summer)
- this spring, which has actually been perfectly moderate weather, as a spring should be
- bowls of cherries
- slices of music: bog-shed, Kenny process team, getting psyched up for watching dead c in June.

championship manager 03/04
toasted brioche and cappucino as a wfh breakfast
hanging out with high energy young neighbours
managing experts for a living
playing an unplugged electric guitar on the patio

I’ve been struggling to think of five cool or exciting things, if even things I’m loving, but I’m trying ok

-“as serious as your life” by Val Wilmer
-Barbara Mason’s early singles
-the 1950s-1970s pile of Sing Out magazine I got at last weekend’s book sale
-listening to either sister ray or slip inside this house on a loop, loud, during my commute

I got 4

ian in two weeks souled american's music will be available on bandcamp, none of it's been available digitally ever and they are the most wonderful band, so I offer this as your number five

- summer peaches mmm
- the harp in the south by ruth park
- quietly hostile by samantha irby
- golden hour
- occasionally carving out extra time in the early morning to just sit drink my coffee on the couch

- putting on early sea and cake records in the early evening when it's like 72º outside
- the nba finals
- this simple vodka sauce penne pasta i keep making like 3 nights a week
- my cat sleeping on my hip (this is a permanent item)
- walking 3 miles around midnight, starting to run just a little

walking 3 miles around midnight, starting to run just a little

that is fantastic news! 💪

1) the denver nuggets
2) pickleball
3) walking everywhere
4) being “a non-drinker”
5) relevant here…feeling down that I don’t care about enough things

1) the mushroom pate they're selling in the Co-Op
2) the Avalon Emerson & The Charm album
3) BBC3's gay dating show presented by Dannii Minogue "I Kissed A Boy"
4) a really nice purple-pink oversized t-shirt I got in H&M
5) my boyfriend buying me a CD-burner so I can buy things from Discogs and rip them without having to turn on a very slow laptop from 2007

1. French mint cordial I can get in an import shop near Paddington
2. Sonny Rollins' "A Night At The Village Vanguard"
3. A couple of the least-annoying/most-insightful film & music reaction channels on YouTube (I should still stop watching these so much)
4. Working with my 8-year-old to get Hereford United promoted to the premier league (FIFA 09 on the Wii - he does the playing, I'm the manager)
5. Hancock's Half Hour radio series

- walking 3 miles around midnight, starting to run just a little

midnight walker crew assemble

hell yeah, i love it, like walking on the moon

Spending time with the most delightful person
Cheese and crackers
Yorkshire Bedtime Decaf Tea (with vanilla & nutmeg)
Learning how to play proper chords
Designed & organising team t-shirts for an upcoming work event

1. Gardening (on the balcony)
2. Rereading
3. Teaching baby stuff and watching her laugh at me
4. Investing
5. Organized bitching about work and solidarity with colleagues

started eating blackberries. that's some juice!
brave words by the chills
long loud dresses + a statement toenail polish
getting into regular exercise is genuinely changing every aspect of my life in a way I can't describe without sounding cultist
(maybe) (very tentatively) (experimenting with the idea of) falling in love again

sunsets
porches
hugging my father
tim robinson
butts

Going to museums with my niece and nephew (ages 4 and 2)
Arboretum at sunset
Heavy metal
Doodling
New shoes

What an entirely lovely thread.

1) The lift of these late spring evenings
2) Meditating, 20 minutes every day
3) Watching my garden slowly evolve, knowing it'll be another five years before it fully makes sense
4) The Line of Beauty
5) Letting my subconscious chew over how I'm going to teach writing fiction to my Y10 classes

There's a 6) which is the mirror's backing: the constant presence of my son's depression and severe OCD, which is quite close (I hope) to 3).

- simple woodworking projects with oldest
- carajillos with burnt rosemary and lime, again
- slowly transcribing guitar solos from Dire Straits' self titled as they exist in memory
- trying to convince guy operating Turo fleet outside my house that his customers ring my doorbell and bother me all of the time
- crying

being “a non-drinker”

This is definitely one of my five, has been for about six years. It's been transformative.

- eating at least two grapefruits per day
- oil painting... with no plan before i start a piece
- saturday karaoke & wings with my fam
- teaching my two youngest boys how to hoop, and them actually listening to my advice/coaching
- estate sales and online auctions

1) every morning i wake up and open palm slam a vhs into the slot. its chronicles of riddick and right then and there i start doing the moves alongside with the main character, riddick.

2) i do every move and i do every move hard. makin whooshing sounds when i slam down some necro bastards or even when i mess up technique.

3.) not many can say they escaped the galaxy’s most dangerous prison. i can. i say it and i say it outloud everyday to people in my college class and all they do is prove people in college class can still be immature jerks.

4) and ive learned all the lines and ive learned how to make myself and my apartment less lonely by shouting em all. 2 hours including wind down every morning.

5) then i lift

lmao

I’ve been struggling to think of five cool or exciting things, if even things I’m loving, but I’m trying ok

Feeeeeeeling you.

1) My playlist of I don't know what you'd call it or if it even has a formal name (although it really should) but the epic mountain of freestyle-inspired pop music (and immediate precursor to new jack swing) released between like 1988 to 1990 where apparently every recording artist of the period was mandated to use the exact same synth patches and drum machines
2) Slowly shedding anxiety after the two most nerve-wrackingly and brain-shatteringly busy months of my entire working life
3) baseballcardvandals.com
4) the 437 films that William Powell and Myrna Loy made together
5) bizarro gazzara posts

e-bikes
therapy
next week off
caramelised pecans
the initials b b

there is so much on this thread I wanna ask about (transcribing dire straits solos!!) and I'm just thankful for everybody's contributions they are inspiring to me

on the topic of sunsets, we had a beautiful one tonight <3

1. The idea of running, coupled with running 1/3 of the time I told myself i would
2. My white Swiss shepherd
3. The history of rock music podcast
4. Losing hours to rogue like deckbuilders
5. My tart cherry wheat beer currently fermenting

JCLC, I tried the Hot Mustard Doritos tonight based on your rave. Thanking you for this delightful treat that will almost certainly destroy my mouth + stomach.

1. my son coming home after graduating from college
2. saturday morning exercise class
3. anticipating a new album from the clientele
4. somebody somewhere and silo
5. afternoon naps

My playlist of I don't know what you'd call it or if it even has a formal name (although it really should) but the epic mountain of freestyle-inspired pop music (and immediate precursor to new jack swing) released between like 1988 to 1990 where apparently every recording artist of the period was mandated to use the exact same synth patches and drum machines

gonna need you to share this to take my list up to six things

Jones (cat) sleeping nearby on a cushion in her Kallax docket, while I'm working
French and Japanese noir movies
Paper Girls omnibus edition
Crusty old psychedelic, 'festival band' demo tapes on YT (needs a thread, but I suspect nobody will care)
Cloudpunk on the Nintendo Switch

1. camping, went last weekend for the first time with the kids, going again in july.
2. going to a local ukulele group - don't judge, it's the first time I've ever played music with other people and my only opportunity to do so.
3. lao gan ma crispy chilli in oil, absolutely addicted to this stuff.
4. reading for at least half an hour every night.
5. wearing autechre t-shirts to flush out other fans, just succeeded with an uncle at a kids birthday party.

5. wearing autechre t-shirts to flush out other fans, just succeeded with an uncle at a kids birthday party.

for the first time i wore my WARP logo t-shirt (that came with the autechre cds) today when i went to the pub.
not one single person.
i clearly need to move to a different town.

Well it's worked once before about two years ago so not the most successful strategy.

I had a guy compliment me on my Opeth shirt at the bank yesterday.

1. 1-yr wedding anniversay
2. making headway w 1-yr plus insomnia (unrelated to marriage btw)
3. french open
4. nabihah iqbal
5. purely elizabeth granola

just food edition

bob's red mill cranberry almond granola
red hot blues blue corn chips
the above dipped in salsa from local restaurant red iguana
the above used in guacamole
half chicken plate from lebanese place down the street

Dread, stress, books, booze

…..uhhhh…..

Still enjoying painting my nails?

French and Japanese noir movies

Cruel Gun Story!

bob's red mill cranberry almond granola
red hot blues blue corn chips
the above dipped in salsa from local restaurant red iguana
the above used in guacamole
half chicken plate from lebanese place down the street

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booming five

grabbing a pile of the Wire magazine from a load that a local art university were throwing out. Think I may have had a few and not wanting to prevent other possible readers from getting some. but these have been kept in pristine nick and have features I want to read.

Anglo bubbly bubblegum turned up in Mr Price recently so I've been chewing it.

Kate Lister in podcast and webinar form. Her books are good too.

Learning how to be a Feminist Killjoy from Sara Ahmed

continuing watching through talks on youtube with authors I've picked up on recently so a lot of David Graeber, Dorothy Roberts, Matthew Restall, among others. Podcasts too.

watching my baby graduate high school yesterday.
seeing him with his friends including his bff who has been in school with him since kindergarten.
being with maria and my dad and my other baby and feeling happy.
realizing that i never need to be at a high school for the rest of my life unless i'm, like, voting or something.
chicken curry for breakfast this morning.

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<3 congratulations scott

1. Running 10k for the first time in years (under an hour too)
2. Cooking crème brûlée; also putting pink peppercorns in everything
3. Looking at this eternal summer and wondering if we are the last generation who can enjoy the weather
4. Not stressing about work and the money I have to spend in organizing events until 30 November
5. Procrastinating looking for another job and moving out and appreciating where I am and what I have

1-Exploring the Chaiiwalla menu
2-Taskmaster Portugal
3-The Goon Show
4-2000AD
5-Watching Indian films in Ilford.

1. House plants. I’m so proud of them, I wanna post pics. I’ve kept them alive for 7mo!!
2. Vitamix. The things I’m gonna make with this! But I can’t believe I spent this much on a blender (Prime Day sale, but still).
3. “Two Years” by Maple Glider on repeat.
4. Playing around with embroidering on thick paper.
5. Painting designs onto handbags.

tinned spuds
chicken
cider
constantly thinking about whether the universe does end, and then realising in horror that either answer blows my mind
recurring dreams about buying old computer magazines from newsagents

Embroidery on paper sounds cool, I don't think I've ever seen that...

Cutting back on caffeine
Golden Curry cubes
Rebuilding my CD collection
Homemade oat cakes
Hori split pad compact

1. good tea in new ceramic cups given me by an admirer, just the best gift
2. rather unexpectedly, temperance
3. being thrifty about lunch while out of town
4. pace 3, the turkish pistachios I found in one town and seem to have lost, but not before having, for a few days, simply the best pistachios ever
5. the depth you reach when you're getting wholly inadequate sleep over a long period of time but the sleep you do get feels like an entirely different plane of existence

1. Students responding to Sherlock Jr.
2. will Hermes' Lou Reed bio
3. Good sweet vermouth for my Negronis
4. Beverly Hills 90210 on Prime
5. mollejas (gizzards)

almost bought that hermes bio yesterday

Good sweet vermouth for my Negronis

Any reason to not always reach for the Carpano Antica?