• Now, I’m all for spicy food, but 200-times hotter than jalapenos? I don’t know if it’s really worth the intestinal discomfort, especially when one is 8,000 miles from home. Still, Indian ghost chilies sound pretty awesome! More so than the touristy sights I think I’m excited to eat some local street food in Jaipur, Pushkar and Delhi. Any recommendations would be appreciated. Oh, shit, I just realized this page is going to go dark for 10 days while I’m gone. Say, does anyone want to guest edit Swan Fungus while I’m gone? You’ll have total carte blanche to write whatever you want and post whatever music you want. If you’re interested e-mail me and we’ll talk it out. [story]
• A woman in Michigan claims that she’s seen Bigfoot. And, oh yeah, she also fed Bigfoot blueberry bagels. Ordinarily this is where I’d follow up with the punchline, “Newsflash — I’m Bigfoot!” but we all know that the only three places in the world where I’d be caught dead eating a bagel are New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. Sorry, rest of the fucking world. Your bagels just aren’t that good. Well…maybe you, Montreal. [story]
• What am I doing wasting my time trying to put my face on a t-shirt? I should just buy you all these “three-dimensional photo forms” from Japan, which are actually the most realistic human-face masks ever produced. That way instead of wearing my face on your shirt you can wear it on your face. It’ll be just like that movie Face/Off. You’ve seen that one, right? Where Nicholas Cage and John Travolta swap faces (and probably bodily fluids while off camera — zing!). Imagine that, but with my face on top of your face…also you could take my face off whenever you want because it’s just a mask. [story]
• I don’t normally hype new releases but over at Thrill Jockey’s website you can order (while supplies last) a new White Hills cassette called The Process on the Sonic Meditations label. It’s limited to 150 copies and they only have a few copies in stock. Limit one per customer. Aaaand it’s sold out. Wow. That was fast. Literally as I was typing this the website changed. I didn’t order one because I don’t get this whole cassette tape revival thing that’s going on in the “indie” or “underground” music scene. My car doesn’t even have a cassette deck anymore. What am I going to do with a tape, transfer it to MP3 and put it on my iPod? No thanks, that’s what other less-lazy blogs are for. [story]
• This morning I ran 16 miles. It wasn’t so much painful as it was tedious because now that I’m running such long distances I find myself having to almost constantly recalculate and alter my routes. I don’t want to just run straight for 8 miles and then back another 8 miles, because what if (God forbid) I tear a muscle or something and I’m 8 miles from home? That would suck. So isn’t it better to run five or six instead? But then I don’t want to run the same route AGAIN, so I have to maybe take a turn here and go there…it gets awfully complicated really quickly and I hate having to think while I run. It’s supposed to be mindless, or at the very least I should be focusing my attention on my pace, not “I need to turn at this street and then run this distance and turn on that street and run this distance.” My time was pretty good on the 16-mile run, I did it in under 2.5 hours, which means if I kept up my pace I’d be on target for a 4:00:00 – 4:10:00 marathon. Some people have told me I need to focus on finishing in under four hours…I just want to finish the race.
Rapoon – Our Tresspasses
October 17th, 2011
Are you insane? NO STREET FOOD or you will be in the hotel with “Delhi Belly”.