☮ Social ☮ PD Social Talk Thread: Firly Swolks Discussing Mitillating Tatters Fithout Wilters

[Xorkoth]

I haven't seen T-2 or T-7 (or T-4 or T-21) available anywhere in a long time. It's a shame, I really, really like T-2 and T-21, T-7 was cool too but I never got there with it. Haven't tried T-4 but my friend has some so I will sometime.

Last night my drummer added this part to our song that I said we had finished, it's such an awesome part to add, it really evolved the song. Recording is such a cool experience, all of our songs have evolved in the process. Next, we have to figure out how to add in these additional parts while playing live. I've got to start learning to play 2 separate parts on 2 keyboards at once, it seems so hard to me now but plenty of people do it.

 

[white55]

fuck this heatwave. well over 30°C and high humidity... I need to study and after just one hour I feel like needing a nap.

on the other hand, I'll see a sweet girl later on, who I've already spent a night with on Sunday and she will probably stay at my place tonight. so in this regard, I can't complain.. :D

Hell yeah, today was supposed do be a nicer day, perfect for a light trip but instead of that we had a bunch of storms and still way too hot so trip postponed :/

Oh well on the plus side I found some 4-ho-ept I never new I had and in a day or two my disso tolerance should be low enough to make some 2fdck not a complete waste

Btw, anyone combined 4-ho-ept and ald-52? And maybe al-lad / eth-lad / 2fdck although adding all of that would probably not be a light trip and I'll save it for another time (and get some o-pce/3-ho-pcp/3-meo-pcp/.. to go along)... that should be one of those crazy ass trips.

> Maybe ill be able to sort out some t7 or at least t2...i liked t2 a lot.

Not asking for sources, but you can get 2c-t-7? Damn I'm jealous. Never tried t-2, how is it compared to t-7?

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[Xorkoth]

So I basically live in a cabin/treehouse in the woods, in the summer I more or less live outside because I keep all the doors and windows open (with screens) 24/7. There is no air conditioner but since it's at some elevation and in the woods, it doesn't get too hot. It's fucking awesome and priceless, but insects can be a problem. I used to have a huge ant problem but I am much cleaner now. Unfortunately, my cat starts every morning (almost) by barfing up a hairball on the floor, and I often wake up with a line of those really tiny ants just absolutely overwhelming the hairball, and they start to explore elsewhere so I'm always having to kill ants. So annoying. It's like, dude, you have a cat door, why do you have to barf inside?

I also sometimes get eaten by mosquitoes while I'm sleeping at night.

Overall though, I love living the way I do, it's like living outside in the forest, but with a roof. And I do have heat for the winter. It's a kerosene heater which kinda sucks because even though the price of gasoline and natural gas has gone way down, kerosene has steadily climbed, it's over $4.50 a gallon now. I am wanting to have my wood stove reinstalled, it was installed when I bought the house and the woman I bought it from had it uninstalled before I moved in but after I put an offer on it, she was like "oh, it was just so RUSTIC, who would want that?" I was like... uh, pretty much anyone moving into a cabin in the wood, duh! 8)

Hopefully my cryptocurrency investments will pay off hugely in the future and I won't have to worry about being able to afford stuff like that. Hoping this Ripple I am buying at 25 cents or so per coin shoots up exponentially. Got almost 2,000 of them now.

 

[Bagseed]

I think your way of living sounds pretty awesome, xorkoth!

I also plan to leave the city in the next few years. my sister and I plan on starting a gardening/agriculture thing...

 

[Xorkoth]

I recommend to anyone to leave the city/suburbs, especially if you don't like it. I can't tell you how positive an effect it's had on my life to move back into nature. I live 10 minutes from downtown, but also 5 minutes from the Blue Ridge Parkway and outside of city limits. A short drive gets me to some of the most unspoiled nature to be found in this country.

 

[white55]

I recommend to anyone to leave the city/suburbs, especially if you don't like it. I can't tell you how positive an effect it's had on my life to move back into nature. I live 10 minutes from downtown, but also 5 minutes from the Blue Ridge Parkway and outside of city limits. A short drive gets me to some of the most unspoiled nature to be found in this country.

If I could get 1000/1000 fiber somewhere deep in the forests....

 

[Bagseed]

I recommend to anyone to leave the city/suburbs, especially if you don't like it. I can't tell you how positive an effect it's had on my life to move back into nature. I live 10 minutes from downtown, but also 5 minutes from the Blue Ridge Parkway and outside of city limits. A short drive gets me to some of the most unspoiled nature to be found in this country.

well if I stay in Austria, I probably won't be as lucky, because this country is pretty densely populated, so finding truly untouched nature is not that easy unfortunately. still some beautiful spots here

off to pick up my date. we will spend a bit of time in a cool park before going to my place. temperatures won't drop under 20°C tonight so this will be nice.

 

[spacejunk]

i love living in the city, it really works for me - but melbourne was voted "world's most liveable city" two years running by some kind of...people that award titles like that, haha.
but i dig that i can live really easily without a car, that there are a series of urban villages within the inner city area i live in. town planning makes a huge difference to the vibe and cohesion of a town. i like it a lot - there is a really diverse array of cultural things here (music, arts generally, food, all sorts of stuff)

having said that though, i've not lived here that long, so i'm not bored of it yet. if i weren't in the inner city, i'm sure i'd feel differently.

i love getting out into the country, and have been hiking a few times recently with friends - but i'm a city kid at heart.
as much as i love scrambling up mountains and absolutely love nature and the natural world - i don't know if i'd want to live in the country for too long. i like to get out into the wilderness as often as i can - but even if that's a couple of times a year, i'm ok with that.
that's in australia, anyway. it gets super hot in australia in summer (i think of 30 degrees as moderately hot - and i don't like the heat!). it's freaky with bushfires in summer over here - in the last 5 years at least 2 small countries towns (every building, and every animal or person that didn't flee) have been completely wiped out by fire. climate change and drought is only making it worse.
nowhere on the planet is immune to the horrors of climate change...but i feel slightly less vulnerable in the city, i suppose.

your home sounds absolutely dreamy though xork. both your house, its location and the community there.
sounds absolutely spectacular.

 

[Xorkoth]

Yeah it's pretty sweet. I actually don't like living in a little town away from people entirely... I just don't like living in the concrete jungle, at all. My girlfriend lives in a small town about 25 minutes away or so, and she thinks my town is too big, but I wouldn't want to live there, I love being able to drive into town easily and go downtown and hang out with people and see music and so forth. I personally find big cities overwhelming, I like to go home and have quiet and birds and insects and a forest and not be around all those people all the time. I get anxious when there are thousands and thousands of people everywhere around me and I hear traffic all the time and shit. But I get that some people seem to legitimately like that. The most important thing to me is being in touch with real nature, not parks and shit but wild nature, on more than an occasional basis. It's made a big difference to my mental health and stress levels to have that be my baseline state of living.

 

[spacejunk]

yeah, i'm really lucky here - we have a big yard, grow our own vegetables and have more native animals around the place than i'm used to.
i always hated suburbia, but where i'm living now has the best things about the suburbs with the convenience of the inner city.

personally i find community a really big part of what i need to be happy - so wherever that is. physical environment is important too, but i get by with a little help from my friends

 

[Tranced]

yeah, i'm really lucky here - we have a big yard, grow our own vegetables and have more native animals around the place than i'm used to.
i always hated suburbia, but where i'm living now has the best things about the suburbs with the convenience of the inner city.

personally i find community a really big part of what i need to be happy - so wherever that is. physical environment is important too, but i get by with a little help from my friends

What kind of veg do you grow over your way? I've always wondered what kind of vegetables people are able to grow in such a climate.

 

[Solipsis]

Met a really hot (my taste i mean, not like a babe, i find it a repulsive word and even more that my ex sometimes called me that lol) girl on OK C, half Flemish... I don't normally care so much when I got matches, but my first impression is super yummy.. wish me luck

A really calm week work-wise although I have a lot of awesome things going on involving mushroom growing, arduino (teaching the video dude at art academy), possibly something to do with mushrooms at the art academy.. tomorrow at possible new job / traineeship for orientation on the conditions for reintegrating etc..

Then today super relieved to find that my electric mitre saw is not in fact a worthless piece of shit but my first test I just pushed it too much with way too hard wood. So now I am arranging to finish the doors of my armoire in my mom's overgrown but roomy garden.. getting lots of sun..
Insomnia is shitty from the alcohol & weed withdrawals but i'll survive - really stimulating to have my shit together..

As for the dating, that stuff also works best when I am relaxed and being a (mostly naturally hypomanic) goofball, otherwise my thinking is cramped and a chat just is formal and boring..

A bit jealous spacejunk ^ wish i had a yard with lots of light... trying to grow plants indoors but it is pretty hard and a lot of work (fighting pests and diseases which normally are kept in check in nature, and cleaning up more than you would outside for example)..

Finding a community and participating is something i find pretty damn hard, also just getting impatient since meeting people since I moved here is disappointing - but things are finally starting to get flowing
The mushroom growing will be done with a community especially when the actual growing starts (setting it up now) so may meet people there.. the art academy is really connected too (relatively open to outsiders), will go to an open day at a new center with clubs and late july pencak silat starts...

What's your experience with 'community'?

 

[spacejunk]

What kind of veg do you grow over your way? I've always wondered what kind of vegetables people are able to grow in such a climate.well, we've just put a new garden bed down (the lawn had taken over the whole yard) but we've got things like snowpeas, cauliflower, pumpkin, potatoes, celery and a few types of herbs. in the warmer months, tomatoes grow well here, and chilli, capsicum.

the climate here is amazing for growing stuff because it's not too cold, but there's good rainfall (where i grew up is dry and arid) and we have good soil.

in our last place, my housemate had heaps of veges and herbs growing, and he has a 14 envelope full of packets of different seeds for vege gardens and the like. we're a real greeny household, so we do composting and stuff - which i really like.

we have a bunch of fruit trees that we've made good use of since we moved in 6 months ago - limes, prickly pear and figs.
prickly pear fruit is interesting but difficult to harvest and prepare.
i made a huge batch of fig jam which i'm now enjoying as it's winter.

my san pedro cacti are thriving here, which is another plus. i lived in a one bedroom apartment for years, so it's all quite a novelty to do 'outdoors' stuff at home
gardening is pretty fun, especially when you get fresh produce out of it. i'm learning more as we go along - i've not had a vegetable patch to play with like this before.
homegrown tomatoes are so flavoursome.

What's your experience with 'community'?

for me it is largely the music community. i play in bands and know a lot of people in bands, which means i have a massive social network without having to try to make friends, or go out and meet people.
it's really nice, and the music scene is great here - lots of venues, lots of great bands.
i've met all my closest friends since high school through some part of being part of the music community (whether they are musicians, writers or just people that come to gigs).

i guess my housemates are something of a smaller, domestic community as well. i kinda came across them through an environmentalist website. it's cool because we all have similar values regarding living fairly simple lifestyles, and living as sustainably as possible.
i love solitude, but not isolation, if that makes sense?

 

[LSDMDMA&AMP]

Bro im stayin in DC right
Soutjeast and its ghetto as fuck here. The alley behind where im stayin i seen a dude pull out a vial of PCP and dip 2 cigarettes for someone.
I was like yp tryin to see if dude would dip one of mine but he gestured nah. Theyre up the block and im sure i could get these dudes i was talking to down the block to sell me PCP (i assume thats what theyre doing...theyre selling something) but i devided nah cause that shit stinks. Like a dipped cigarette stinks like a bitch cause o wanted to get one to being back home but nah im cool. I dont really have extra money anyway.

 

[iamthetalker]

Bro im stayin in DC right
Soutjeast and its ghetto as fuck here. The alley behind where im stayin i seen a dude pull out a vial of PCP and dip 2 cigarettes for someone.

I don't know why anyone would want to live in DC; I've never heard anything good about that place. And not just the crime; people even gripe about the quality of the monuments and museums these days, it seems.

I'll make it out to Australia some day. It's probably better to try when I'm already on this side of the world, too. Experiencing new places is one of my favorite things, and I'm always looking for the right place to settle down... Somewhere like where you live sounds perfect, Xorkoth: surrounded by nature but a short hop to the convenience and bustle of a major (sub)urban area. It's just a matter of finding a place like that where the weather also agrees with me! (I grew up in the southern US so the cold and I don't get along.) I read somewhere once about an island off the coast of British Columbia that stays in the 20s (Celsius) year-round...

Hey there. By the way I like your avatar picture, I saw some of that psychedelic broccoli in Whole Foods a while back and took some pictures. Crazy shit.

broccoli is awesome. fractal broccoli is amazing

Romanesco is the shit. Not only does it look cool, it tastes awesome, too. Any time I go to cut it up I end up staring at it, usually until the wife gives me a funny look .

 

[vortech]

The local Co-op has romanesco when in season. I usually eat about half of it raw and steam the other half like regular broccoli.
As for community, I have found a lot of affinity and welcome vibes in the Burner community, and the other circles that orbit around electronic music and art (not so much 'rave' scene, but the psychedelic, downtempo, experimental etc scenes which have good representation here). That's where I have found the vast majority of my 'friends for life'. Of course, BL offers a nice community as well, for the aspects of expression and connection that may be hard to find an outlet for in the wild

 

[Jabberwocky]

Speaking of San Pedro chips. Has anyone ever tried freeze drying San Pedro Chips? It'd make a tasty snack don't you think?

Happy Solstice!

 

[swilow]

fuck this heatwave. well over 30°C and high humidity... I need to study and after just one hour I feel like needing a nap.
:D

30° is lovely, try low 40°'s for absolute shit.

That said I hate the cold and winter, I like sitting outside but can't hack the 10°-13° shitness we've currently got which is probably not even cold to you :D

 

[Xorkoth]

Haha, that doesn't even approach cold. In the middle of winter, even reaching freezing is pretty nice in my book.

 

[iamthetalker]

The local Co-op has romanesco when in season. I usually eat about half of it raw and steam the other half like regular broccoli.

I was turned off of steamed vegetables as a kid. Roasting is the way to go! For both broccoli and romanesco I'll toss in olive oil with a little bit of salt and pepper and roast in the oven at 400 for 15-18 minutes. The flavor is exquisite and the oil helps you nab those precious vitamins. Scattering the veggies around a chicken breast and adding a couple minutes makes an easy one-pan meal.

...Now I'm hungry.

Speaking of San Pedro chips. Has anyone ever tried freeze drying San Pedro Chips? It'd make a tasty snack don't you think?

Happy Solstice!

Actually, I've heard chewing dried cactus chips turns them almost instantly into a mucilaginous mess in your mouth. Apparently they reconstitute really easily. Although, I suppose if freezing the cactus helps break down the cell walls, then freeze-drying (as opposed to sun- or fan-drying) may actually prevent the snot problem, turning them into an interesting, if bitter, psychedelic snack...