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21 March 2010

Three (or four or five, whatever) things you're enjoying lately. Could be movies/books/music/food/hobbies, etc. Totally free-form. Let's go!

post by: ufez at: 16:04 | 27 comments

Mine:

Two albums I just can't get enough of lately: Antipop Consortium's Arrhythmia and Stiff Little Fingers live album Hanx!

Science! At spring break I have A's in both of my classes and I feel like I'm actually getting this shit. So far, at least.

My alma mater not only getting their first NCAA men's tourney victory in sixty years, but making the sweet 16 and looking like they have a good shot at making the Elite 8.

posted by ufez 21 March | 16:08

Piper's first two albums (Billy Squier's first signed band and nothing like his solo crap)
Hyperion by Dan Simmons (a little heavy on the SF but a good story)
Brian Setzer's guitar instructional DVD (that guy has more licks up his sleeve than Clapton)
Our cat Sookie has crossed that boundary in trusting us totally
Actually craving bananas rather than sausage or potato chips

posted by Ardiril 21 March | 16:15

Watched It Might Get Loud last night & loved it. I need more U2 albums.
Yay Sookie!
We'll be able to start nibbling on our lettuce plants out back this week.
mrs chewie started making these sauteed (?) carrots that are super tasty & I could eat 'em like fries.
I continue to be addicted to chocolate.

posted by chewatadistance 21 March | 17:19

Rereading Agatha Christie novels

Going to the gym again

Feeling all productive and organized as I sort through some of the clutter around here

posted by occhiblu 21 March | 17:23

P.Y.T. from Thriller

Checks

posted by Firas 21 March | 17:28

One Two Three or is that just one?

posted by Wolfdog 21 March | 17:46

- streusel coffee cake
- open windows, and the scent of spring breezing in all green and muddy
- Radiolab
- fancy finishing salt

posted by Elsa 21 March | 17:58

Fool's Gold singing Surprise Hotel, live on KEXP! This song matches the insane seasonal change just beginning for us...capital-S Spring is just about here! The weather's here shot up twenty degrees in about two weeks, the snow is gone, and it's going to be 17°C/62°F here on Friday.

Picnics!

My decluttered room!

posted by mdonley 21 March | 18:26

Watching _Blood and Sand_ and making humour in my mind about how health care reform would relate to gladiator activities;
Eating way too far into a 56oz bag of peanut M&Ms;
And yesterday I made a graveside visit to a friend that passed on in '96. I feel as if I have made some non-subjective and un-objectifiable growth in my life with this trip that I made yesterday. Another maturing of sorts.

And I am ready for the coming week. Rested, bored, and ready to go. I've been enjoying life lately. Compared to periods of mere existance in the past; it is great to be enjoying life again.

posted by buzzman 21 March | 18:56

CAKE VS PIE TOURNAMENT

Y'ALL FORGOT ABOUT FROSTING!!!

posted by mullacc 21 March | 19:01

Always the Moon, by Jonathan Coulton
Culture Shock in Japan not yet setting in, just kinda being giddy about trains and vending machines
Boss Coffee and Afternoon Tea
Nethack on my DS

posted by gc 21 March | 19:15

JG Ballard novels
Super Mario Bros for Wii
Having a drink with every meal

posted by birdie 21 March | 19:16

At this very moment I am enjoying a bowl of brown rice, millet, quinua and amaranth, with tamari and nutritional yeast! I can reassure you that I am not enjoying any patchouli though.

posted by serazin 21 March | 19:43

Just watched Bronson and really dug it.

I love the color of my new bedroom (S-H-540 Quiet Storm, 3rd row, 2nd column)

Hubby brought back Ezell's for lunch.

posted by evilcupcakes 21 March | 19:50

Ip Man

posted by Hugh Janus 21 March | 19:54

I'm enjoying this new season of Project Runway USA (7). I actually care again about the designers and what they are creating. Some really good work coming out.

I've almost forgotten the bore that was season 6!

posted by gomichild 21 March | 20:00

Delicious bread with olive oil and balsamic

The Fugees' version of Killing Me Softly

Roasted sweet potato with lemon juice, salt, and black pepper

The prospect of spring break in three days

The gorgeous weather

posted by unsurprising 21 March | 20:18

The Weather. OMG I love spring in New York City. It's a shame that it's so fucking short. I will be a shut-in huddling over my air-con very soon.

posted by gaspode 21 March | 21:02

1. iPhone. Didn't think I wanted one until I had one. Love that goddam thing.
2. tumblr. There is a lot to be said for really really simple.
3. Babylon 5, again. Bought the box set. Halfway into season 2, it's just so epic.
4. Corned beef hash. Best breakfast ever. I never knew.

posted by cortex 21 March | 21:34

Old video games. I've been playing some of the Playstation (1) games that I bought years and years ago but never got around to playing. Not on the Playstation though, I have been using the ePSXe emulator and some of the custom shaders people have made that can actually improve on the graphics in some cases. Also have been playing a lot of my schmups for PS1/Dreamcast/Saturn lately.

I never finished the Gamecube Zelda and I started to play it again on my Wii the other day. Bad weather, no work and an injured stomach muscle (and I thought back problems were irritating...) have meant lots and lots of game playing lately.

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 21 March | 22:27

- Running. I'm up to eight mile runs on the weekends now, need to get up to a thirteen mile one in the next six weeks before the Pittsburgh (1/2) Marathon.

- Spring. I've never been so ready for good weather and it was f'ing beautiful all weekend.

- My neighborhood. My neighbors held a baby shower today for the two women who run the local coffee shop and pretty much the entire neighborhood turned out with presents and support. The fact that the women and men of the neighborhood, ranging in age from their 20s to their 70s, would actively support a same sex couple and their child makes me feel like humanity actually has a chance. These are good people.

posted by octothorpe 21 March | 23:52

The dog park. Olive loves the dog park, I love that Olive loves the dog park. And she sleeps sooo well afterward.

Zombies!!! board game. Just finished a 3.5-hour (!) game with friends tonight. It was the longest game of Zombies!!! I've ever played, but was super fun.

My fiance. He's adorable and I'm super in love.

posted by rhapsodie 22 March | 00:10

I've been up for less than an hour, but so far I've been enjoying Caroline by Status Quo, The Now Show - a BBC podcast and most of all, my Senseo coffee machine

posted by quarsan 22 March | 00:54

Daily Shoot. It's got me all energized.

I'm enjoying terrible novels. Paranormal romances! Paranormal mystery romances! Interchangeable paperbacks with the word Death in the title! They all rock! I go through them like candy and forget them like dreams.

Previous to sinking myself in the literary mud, though, in the good book category I reread Tim Powers' sort of trilogy, the Fault Lines series - Last Call, Expiration Date and Earthquake Weather - and they are amazingly wonderful.

posted by mygothlaundry 22 March | 09:49

Being alone. (I'm not exactly a fan of people in the first place, but I've been especially enjoying my house lately.)

posted by sperose 22 March | 10:13

1. Firefly. Got it as a gift, the whole series, and it's amazing how good it is. Makes Dollhouse look all the worse.

2. Longer days. Had dinner al fresco out on the front deck as Friday. Wine glass in hand, waving to people on bikes riding by. A collective joy in spring, in this town.

3. Relatively good health, a wife that I desire lo all these years and still makes me laugh, and living a hour away from both skiing and the beach.

posted by danf 22 March | 10:50

- Payday's (candy bar) from the trip to Everett (stupid Canada doesn't have them)

- new 46" HDTV

- the mister; I married an amazing person

posted by deborah 23 March | 01:20

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