[28 Dec 2009|09:38am] sidewayszombie buckwheat noodles and potatoes, asparagus, brussels sprouts, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, mushrooms, zucchini, radish and tofu sizzling in coconut oil, a mild coriandery curry paste, a little hoisin, black mustard seeds and a little water and then once the heat is off sprinkled with fried moong dal mm mm and not that any ego needs it but the guy who i found extremely irritating on saturday was interested enough in what i was making to take a picture for his "good food" album on his phone. there is something deliciously sacrilege about blending different cuisines. hoisin and curry!? post comment

[26 Dec 2009|08:01pm] sidewayszombie entirety of entry: insert disjointed rant or cryptic mindblast deleted and rewritten several times triggered by one of my roommate's fool drunk friends telling me my life is boring because i don't have a cool cellphone or want to go to the bar with him for "some hot ass" and also by religulous. it is easy to have compassion for dumb animals and ghosts but adult humans are quite a challenge. post comment

[24 Dec 2009|02:38pm] sidewayszombie oh yeah, check it out obama is trying to renew the chunks of the patriot act which were set to expire at the end of the year our hero! i do appreciate what he has done for me; he has made it all too clear just how much of a lie and diversion red v blue is. duality! good lesson, neither side is real, so we have to go beyond both to find the source. i guess we're all taoists at heart even when we're not. 3 comments|post comment

[19 Dec 2009|03:33am] sidewayszombie [ mood | perchance to dean ] attempted a fast today i made it 23 hours and then neil decided to order a bunch of food after the jam so there went that it was long enough though, i learned some stuff and since i haven't been meditating regularly i missed out of a lot of the subtleties. it definitely has its merits. i could see a weekly day long fast being pretty beneficial and something i'd like to work towards. 3 meals a day is much more than we need to eat. i don't know how in the world so many cultures decided that a big dinner is the way to go. eliminating dinner as a meal(it is now mostly just toast and jam or flatbread and hummus or something like that) and having lunch as the main meal of the day improved the quality of my sleep dramatically. random indigestion stopped too but that could just be from a more careful diet rather than from the pattern. i'll definitely be attempting more in the near future. feeling occasional extended moments of warmth from my gutty works followed by some sort of bodily release/relief not unlike a joint cracking or a well done stretch and the constant lightness were two awesome motivating factors and i can only imagine how much better or sustained those types of things would be if i was back in the habit of meditating. were it not merely a curious investigative jaunt into the ascetic arts i would consider it a waste precisely because it was done without any sort of meditation or breathing exercises. i kept myself pretty sensually occupied(video games, reading and then jamming and watching venture brothers) but some of the brief moments of mantra, breath work or introspection i did do seemed ripe. i'd like to get back to some of those places but tomorrow i have a date with an in-n-out grilled cheese, endless pitchers of bad beer, a bowling ball and the starbucks crew. post comment

[16 Dec 2009|07:14pm] sidewayszombie i had a moment of fantastic synchronicity today the kind where a random spur of the moment decision causes conditions later for a wild coincidence which by now we should realize are not coincidences at all, but a lesser form of fate fate is a mindblowing concept, whether it is either the truth or the complete lack of any destiny that we choose to believe i think if we remain on autopilot our entire lives we are totally at the mercy of whatever is written for us, whereas with clarity and hard work we can change it for the better, and greedy or passionate actions can ruin it. the writer is a genius, best book ever 1 comment|post comment

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