I know this used to be a thread, but I couldn’t find it to save my life (i.e. I got bored and gave up). Now that we’re all quarantined, I was wondering if any of you were spending time reading, and if so, what?
Heavy Metal Movies- a fantastic book about Grindhouse,Art and music films that all have some connection to metal…the guy who wrote it is funny as shit and has a definite way with words…
Also re-reading Ubik by Philip K Dick and various Charles Bukowski poems…
I was gonna start a “Whatcha been doing since the quarantine” thread. I’ll include my doings in here too. as far as books…
I’ve got 3:
Upstart Mystique
The Science Of Rick and Morty
The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross
I admit it’s going slow though because I’m spending a tremendous amount of time (the last 3 weeks) cleaning and sorting. I have a literal mountain of donation bags, and I’m doing a huge amount of house maintenance.
Last count I’ve changed 2 toilet floats,
changed 4 water shut-off valves (3 sink and 1 toilet-we actually got water pressure and heat back in 1 sink-we haven’t had ever had water pressure and heat in since we moved in)
took 3 bathroom sink drains apart to clear out clogs. We’ve had pretty slow drains for years now and no amount of drano would really fix it, so i figured “fuck it,” I’ll take 'em apart so now we got fast moving drains.
Moved all of my daughter’s furniture out of her room painted her room pink (including the ceiling-what a bitch that was) moved all of her furniture back into her room.
bought a weed whacker (i used to wait for the unmowable grass to get really long then I would use shop scissors to cut that grass) but the weed whacker kicks ass it’s not as good as my edger for edging but my fence no longer looks like it’s growing grass. 
so needless to say I’ve mowed and whacked the front and back yards
I also rewired our sprinkler system in the back yard. I got a landscaping company my buddy uses coming today though because the water pressure in my sprinklers is all fucked up and I can’t seem to fix it. one can doesn’t have enough pressure to trip the sprinkler another can has pressure but it just burbles up and causes flooding on my porch. still, 2 other cans have this piddly water pressure that just just pisses this little stream of water in one direction. The landscaping people are still working because it’s pretty much a solo job. they don’t really have to interact with people.
I’ve throughly cleaned 4 rooms and 1/2 of mine and my wife’s walk in closet (she did her side)
I bought a shower scrubber that attaches to my drill and kicked my shower’s ass! Holy shit I don’t think my shower has ever been this clean.
Changed a set of blinds in our living room
I still gotta Paint my son’s room (“Daphne got to paint her room the color she wanted” ) I already have the paint but just waiting on him to clean his room So I can move his bed out to get at one of the walls.
I plan on cleaning the garage tomorrow when the weather hits 71 degrees.
We’ve had both of our curbside recycling bins filled to the brim for the past 3 weeks and trash bin hasn’t actually been that full since most of our disposables have been recycling.
I put up a shelf once. (But in all fairness, your list of accomplishments is highly impressive. You could have just watched Tiger King.)
Other than reading, I’ve been spending a lot of time sleeping. I have basic cable, no movie channels and no streaming. Thank God for my DVD collection and the twice-weekly online Dungeons & Dragons game I’m playing.
A book about Appalachian folk magic.
Thanks man,
I’m sure your shelf kicked ass too .
Yeah, tv has been pretty sparse for me too. Between being online for my students (although, admittedly, much of it is just waiting with an unchanging screen for them to log in, which they don’t do) and cleaning the house and maintence that’s pretty much all Ive been doing. On tv I keep up with Better call saul (which the season is ending next week 
) The curse of Oak Island (which is fast approaching the end but doesn’t matter anyway because it’s a big nothing burger week after week.) Caught back up with 60 days in and then Ancient aliens. That’s pretty much the end of my tv viewing. So I don’t really have much to watch. (LOL, butI did watch tiger king! )
I’m being a big stick in the mud about Tiger King, not to piss anyone off but because my access to Netflix is limited, and I won’t waste what little time I have on there on this bizarre show. And binge watching just isn’t for me. I have a very short attention span, and often abandon shows after the first few episodes. The only show I religiously watch is Family Guy.
Last Train To Memphis - a super detailed Elvis biography. Really enjoying it.
How To Stay Alive In The Woods - basically just a how to book. I actually started reading this before the pandemic and picked it up again. Might come in handy during these times HAHA.
I do have to work, but I’ve been recently reading after seeing John Walsh tv show, about a murder of two young teenage girls in broad daylight from Indiana, one of the girls took short video and audio on her phone of suspect approaching, after three years Police haven’t released cause of death or the complete audio.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Abigail_Williams_and_Liberty_German
picture and sketch of suspect
https://www.wfyi.org/files/wfyi/articles/current/042219-delphi-suspect-lg.jpg
I need to find a good book to read.
Without looking at the link (which I’ll do later, painting right now) ill bet the killer is connected to somebody important (some politician’s kid). He’s not caught cause somebody will be embarrassed.
Sidenote: My mom used to take me to the mall where John Walsh’ son Adam was abducted and later murdered in the early 80s down here in South Florida…I still have faint memories of being there…glad my mom kept a watchful eye on me…
That’s heartbreaking. I remember my mom telling me about that little boy when I was young, telling me that someone would snatch me if I didn’t stay next to her at the store n stuff. That’s was basically my first lesson about the sickos of the world out there.
Yeah I remember it really freaking me out …on was 10 when that happened and was old enough to kind of understand but didn’t get the full gravity or it til a little later…I mean,the poor kid was fucking beheaded…it was a real coming of age moment when I fully understood…
A friend of my moms smoked Vantage…and my friends dad smoked Kent cigs…I remember walking past his tv room and it just fucking reeked of chain smoking to the extreme…and then there were Merit’s with the weird tri-filter thing…first cigs I ever tried were Lucky Strikes…that was a rude awakening…
Yeah those were pretty harsh too…seemed like Pall Malls,Lucky Strikes and Camel non-filters were the unholy trinity…its what the baddest and toughest sonsza bitches smoked…
My friend’s mom smoked Benson & Hedges. We would steal one here and there.
I never had a hankering to try cigarettes. I tried cigars (Swisher Sweets) when I was 18. My buddy said you don’t inhale so I never did. I think by the time I did try a cigarette I was 28. I had a girl roommate at the time and she smoked Marlborough. I wanted to see what they tasted like so she gave me one and I just smoked it like a cigar. It didn’t taste all that great but it wasn’t as bad as an ashtray smell. Cigars are much better (Smelling too). I still smoke them occasionally.
I used to have a friend when I was about 8 or 9 and his mom would send him up to the gas station (RIght by the fwy) to buy her cigarettes. I used to get so pissed off that my parents would never let me go with him, but seeing how small I was and how close it was to the 15 fwy (Heavy traffic going to and from Vegas, not a good combo) I totally get it now though. But it would never fail, those gas station cashiers would sell an 8 year old kid cigarettes,
Nilsson: The Life of a Singer/Songwriter
The Dubliners - James Joyce
Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
I still smoke cigars occasionally also…we get some good Cubans down here…goes great with some good whiskey or scotch…I like the mini cigars sometimes also…especially the Romeo and Julietas…
Oh man, Romeo Y Julietas are one of my brands, those and Macanudus (I know I spelled that wrong) and Arturo Fuente. I think I prefer the Macs over all but I definitely like the Romeos. I’ve had a cuban cigar twice in my life; they tasted spicy. I like the little cigars too. Most recently they would sell the little Macs in a tin case and there was a brand that I bought about 20 years ago that came in like this little gold cigarette looking box but they had flavors like vanilla and chocolate. they were pretty good but dangerous I would find myself chain smoking them if I wasn’t careful
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