It's not even December yet...

and I'm already over this holiday shit. Time-travel would be so ideal. Haha.

I didn't get enough sleep last night, which I've figured out makes me a sad panda for no reason. Also Dayquil, even though my cold really doesn't care what time it is, is fucking my head up.

This is me at work, today has been crazy busy, things have gone wrong for no reason, it's all chaos. I think my cold secretly wishes it was nighttime though...mmmmNyquil.

Links for 2007-11-26 [del.icio.us]

Links for 2007-11-26 [del.icio.us]

• Cave People
  An entire village in China located in a cave.
• China's "last cave dwellers" refuse to leave
• Photo Slideshow | Reuters.co.uk
  More Cave Dweller pics

Links for 2007-11-25 [del.icio.us]

Links for 2007-11-25 [del.icio.us]

• The Ultimate Guide to Freezing Food | Former Fat Guy Blog
  How to freeze various types of food
• Wardrobe Refashion: Fuzzy Purple Elf Hat
  Gonna make one for my giant dome.
• Serious Eats: Recipes: Sunday Night Soups: Avgolemono
  I love love love Avgolemono but I haven't eaten it in forever because of the chicken stock...maybe I can try making it with veggie stock?
• Serious Eats: Recipes: Cook the Book: Potato Skillet Pie
  nom nom nom
• gastrokid: 40-Minute Family Meal: Pancetta, Squash and Kale Risotto
• Yeah, That "Vegan" Shit: "Best Soup Ever" Alert!!!!!
  Lentil soup recipe that sounds bomb.
• Yeah, That "Vegan" Shit: General Tao's Eggplant (Sorta)
• what the hell _does_ a vegan eat anyway?: Tofu Marsala, Green Beans, Yukon Potatoes
  mmmmmmtofumarsala

A bit of this and that...

My Thanksgiving was good, I had tofurkey for the first time and I loved it. Screw the haters, that shit was bomb. Pictures are up here at CookinginEsco, and there is a link there to the larger gallery of pictures.

Today is bread baking day...making some simple crusty bread and I'm gonna start making pitas in a bit.

The next few weeks are going to be busy and stupid as hell. Tons of xmas shows, family emergency stuff that has resulted in me having to house sit and take time off of work to do so, and other stupid shit that I've got to take care of. Ugh, stress. I really kind of hate this time of year. Especially since I just want to play in some snow.

Bas and I have the best conversations...

(20:04:07) Marie: chimay is like gods pee
(20:04:08) Bas: served to you by belgians
(20:04:10) Marie: into my mouth
(20:04:12) Bas: palm is good
(20:04:16) Bas: god's piss is rank
(20:04:28) Marie: maybe it's gods cocubine's pee
(20:04:33) Bas: jesus?
(20:04:35) Marie: like one of the greek goddesses or something
(20:04:39) Bas: ida?
(20:04:47) Marie: aphrodite
(20:04:49) Bas: ida would piss a mean cup of pee
(20:04:58) Bas: aphrodite's shit would be all herpessed up
(20:05:02) Marie: no way
(20:05:04) Marie: she's a goddess
(20:05:05) Bas: way
(20:05:07) Marie: she had magics
(20:05:11) Marie: that protect her vag

More dream fun..

So here's what I woke up from at five in the morning:
I was watching tv on a bed with some dude, I don't even know if it was someone I know in real life, or someone just made up in my mind. He gets on top of me and we're kinda making out, and he's totally a lot bigger than I am, cause really who isn't? Then in my dream-mind I think "He's going to stab you in the heart with a scalpel, he's done it before, and you died"...then he kind of pins me down with his body, and covers my mouth with his so I can't scream, and stabs me in the heart with a scalpel. I felt it go in and I lost all of my breath and I think I felt myself die. Then I woke up, with a pain in my chest and my heart trying to beat its way out. Anyone wanna try to figure that one out? Ha. (I seriously almost said "take a stab at it" which was totally unintentional and too ridiculous for words.)

I don't think I have a catchy tune to relate to this.

Tell me what ritual I should have today..

I'm not a very nightmare prone person, my dreams are strictly of the ridiculously-symbolic type. I've been having insane nightmares lately though and reoccurring dreams of car crashes and others of fire. I think it's the end of the world, because obviously I alone can forsee it via my prophetic dreams....or you know, something is just wrong up in my subconscious. It's pretty annoying though because it's sort of this self-perpetuating thing I think....of these dreams waking me up, and not getting enough sleep, so I wake up kinda sad and hurty and then it's this current of emotion running all day, which I ignore, because I'd rather not feel like shit all day, and then I go to sleep and it comes out even stronger or something. Man there is too much I would rather keep not thinking about. Ha.

Oh, and via all of that comes this: songs about fire and songs about car crashes! Or at least songs I associate with those things, or those dreams, or something.

Fire:
Sebadoh - On Fire
Portishead - It's a Fire
The Birthday Party - Sonny's Burning

Car Crashes:
Marilyn Manson - Just a Car Crash Away
The Normal - Warm Leatherette-I could seriously do a whole post about this song. That's for another day though.

Special Added Bonus Song:
The Birthday Party - Mutiny in Heaven-This is what the end of the world sounds like.

Thoughts...

The time I've felt like the biggest lush in my life was not actually when I was drunk. I don't think I was even drinking. I was making empanadas for the first time. I need to roll out the dough but I don't have a rolling pin, as I'm not much of a baker. So I use one of the myriad empty wine bottles I have lying around. Then I need to cut the dough into circles, but I have no cookie cutters. Martini glass to the rescue! It was like something out of a valium-addled 50's housewife's life. Wine bottles are seriously great rolling pins though.

I thought of this because I'm making a roasted-vegetable pot pie with biscuit dough crust right now. Something about making dough always reminds me of that time. Last weekend I learned to make sushi. It was not so reminiscent of anything, but I did get pretty drunk on sake that night. There are pics up of that adventure on Cooking in Esco.

Life

Oh man, things are so surreal right now.
I like my new job though, so I guess that's something. I saw a near old person riot at a show I had to go to for work, when an old lady began yelling at a young, female musician from the mezzanine "TURN IT DOWN! IT'S TOO LOUD!!!!" and then 20 other old people followed suit and began yelling at her. Then they all walked out, or kept complaining through the rest of the show. Hilarious and rude as fuck.

dope. guns. fucking in the streets. revolution.

This song just set me on fire. Take a listen.
Placebo - Spite & Malice (mp3 link)

Revolution, dope, guns, fucking in the streets (x2)
Aces take your time
Queens are left for dead
Jacks can stand in line
And touch themselves instead
Aces take your pity
And keep it warm in bed
Aces take your time

Cut the deck
The queens left for dead
Soft and wet, scarf tied to the bed
Jack is all tragic when he stands alone
Feeling demonic harmonic in a no go zone
You look well suited like you came to win
Lust, spite and malice, your degrees of sin
Cruising for pity and looking pretty as fuck
Ace take your chances
Queen wish you luck

Aces take your time
Draw your final breath
Jacks are feeling fine
They've clubbed themselves to death
Aces take your pity
You sleep with it instead
Aces take your time

You can play your card, I'll hold onto mine
Tied up in the reasons, Ace take your time
Looks turn to lovers, flames into fires
Jack loves his tragedy, Queen her desires
You look well suited like you came to win
Lust, spite and malice, your degrees of sin
Wrap me in your trauma and I may just give you mine
Queen take your chances
Ace take your time

Dope, guns, fucking in the streets (Revolution)
Everything will blow tonight
Either friend or foe, tonight

Cut the deck
The queens left for dead
Soft and wet, scarf tied to the bed
Jack is all tragic when he stands alone
Feeling demonic harmonic in a no go zone
You look well suited like you came to win
Lust, spite and malice, your degrees of sin
Cruising for pity and looking pretty as fuck
Ace take your chances
Queen wish you luck

Dope, guns, fucking in the streets (Revolution)
Everything will blow tonight
Either friend or foe, tonight

More Halloween!

There are now pictures from when we dressed up on the actual holiday and went out to a show to see Brian's band Sanu as well as some other bands they were playing with, and I guess to kinda see Brian himself, who I hadn't seen in like 10 years or something..haha. Too bad we bailed out early, though the show was good.
I was a cracked porcelain doll:

From Halloween 2007

From Halloween 2007

Chris was a demon and made a small child cry:

From Halloween 2007

There are a few other pics in the gallery, go check 'em out.