at Blue Bottle
Ristretto (short espresso) on the road, while thinking music
Tag: Books
Currently — again — bathing… in definitions; soaking in their sounds, concepts, illusions, imposed realities: “labour”, “work”, “being”…
Soaking — not absorbing (Chapter 6 — on the origin of spices)
Analogue
manually rotating my coffee grinder requires well over four hundred turnsjust delighted in eating a salad of avocado, chick peas, celery, red pepper, red onion, with some olive oil and drops of pumpkin seed oil diving deeper in reading this book — paper, ink, printed, hardcover — by Dunn and Sanchez, entitled “Delicious — the… Continue reading Analogue
Subway Reader
Sunday Study
Reading, Smoking
Tinder Box, England, and “Delicious”, by Rob Dunn and Monica Sánchez
All is Deliciousness
Prolonging Transcendental States
“Transcendent states are often desperately short-lived: a few moments late at night or at dusk; on a plane or train journey across wide open country. But we can, through certain ingredients (especially lavender, cardamom, turmeric, and cinnamon), access them a little more systematically and thereby loosen the grip of our insistent egos.”In “Thinking & Eating”,… Continue reading Prolonging Transcendental States
Yard Work
Thinking & Eating, Last Waltz of the Tyrants, Sapiens.
On Taste
On a superficial view, we may seem to differ very widely from each other in our reasonings, and no less in our pleasures: but notwithstanding this difference, which I think to be rather apparent than real, it is probable that the standard both of reason and Taste is the same in all human creatures. For… Continue reading On Taste
Bay Leafed Coffee III
Brooklyn Fare’s Kensington Blend, with bay leaf (no, this is not the rest of a drink; yes, I often allow a limited amount of water through, for that creates a very different palate experience) / “Wagnerism”, by Alex Ross
Tobacco, Ginger, History
On a Sunned and Warmed Porch
Significance
On a hike in East Africa 2 million years ago, you might well have encountered a familiar cast of human characters: anxious mothers cuddling their babies and clutches of carefree children playing in the mud; temperamental youths chafing against the dictates of society and weary elders who just wanted to be left in peace; chest… Continue reading Significance
Pairing
Reading at the Cigar Inn, Manhattan, NY
Sila Blume 