Pre-Halloween Fucking Ten

1) the cramps "i was a teenage werewolf"
2) "adam lay ybounden" (philip ledger arrangement)
3) salt & vinegar kettle chips and dr. pepper, as a combination
4) peter brötzmann octet "machine gun"
5) fall weather, finally
6) honeycrisp apples from new york state
7) the calarts campus on a misting/almost drizzling mid-october evening
8) the criterion my own private idaho
9) various house-hunting and failing-restaurant shows when there's nothing else to watch
10) korean tacos, even/especially after the trend has died down

11) the seeds, "evil hoodoo"
12) franz biebl "ave maria"
13) mahjong titans
14) crossword puzzles
15) candy corn (small quantities)
16) the comic strip presents...
17) olive oil as a contrasting/complementary component in sweets
18) caffeine as a fact of life
19) the vegetarian epicure cookbook and other hippie cookbooks from the '70s
20) revisiting r.e.m. and being excited about the peter buck solo LP

1. chilly arizona mornings
2. getting iced tea from the coffeeshop in the morning instead of coffee
3. taking my cat for a walk on her harness
4. drinks with lime in them
5. 'the long secret' by louise fitzhugh
6. 'cassandra at the wedding' by dorothy baker
7. new episodes of '30 rock'
8. chimichangas
9. driving at night with the window down
10. oversized fantagraphics popeye books

1. golden sunsets on the freeway (occasionally blinding but willing to overlook for awesomeness)
2. thinking about soup recipes
3. mercyful fate 'don't break the oath'
4. halloween costume prep (it is a thing I love)
5. the world of discovery that is flourless/sugarless baking
6. dark chocolate (70% cacao or higher)
7. wearing boots
8. new sweaters
9. pulling out favorite scarves
10. thinking about my Christmas playlist

it's post-halloween/pre-thanksgiving now, but why start a new thread?

21) trader joe's fig butter
22) christopher walken in a late quartet
23) schnittke's concerto for mixed chorus
24) getting my CDs out of crates and figuring out how to store them like a mensch
25) taking a year off from being in charge of cooking thanksgiving dinner
26) the tv show up all night when characters make in-jokes about the san fernando valley
27) the navel-gazing and scab-picking of the post-election GOP
28) rainy days
29) scott walker's "epizootics!"
30) birthday coming up