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Books + Cocktails + Music
Aug. 8th, 2023 08:11 amLast night my roommate decided to make Star Trek-themed cocktails -- one called "Ice Planet," which featured white rum, lemonade, and blue curacao. This one was EXTREMELY sweet, and it was strong enough to get you tipsy, but didn't taste alcoholic at all. The second one, I don't remember the name, but it was a drink for Uhura: vodka, melted honey, white sugar, and fresh slices of lime. Delicious!! More tart, with a major vodka kick to it.
We decided to put the garage shelves together while tipsy, listening to The Cure and Joy Division, which was lots of fun. I got all the spare books that were lying around after my reorganization, plus some that were lurking inside cupboards or in boxes, tucked away inside spare rooms XD Then my roommate moved on to the lamp/table and I got out my chromatic harmonica to search for good tabs.
(Basically, I just browse through the tabs other people have uploaded online, and I try them out to see if the notes are actually correct; if they are, I save them to return to later. Last night had some good ones -- "Nessun dorma," "Cabaret," some Christmas and country songs.)
( Book Pics )
I played for a good 2-3 hours, until I really couldn't manage most songs anymore XD I also read a good little chunk of "The Trials of Joan of Arc", up until the Ordinary Trial section -- the first 100 pages are consumed with Joan's pre-trial, basically her grand jury, where she's questioned extensively. Then the Ordinary Trial starts and they bring out the articles against her. My roommate at the same time was reading a collection of Kafka's aphorisms, which sounded like total nonsense to my drunk brain.
Ooh! See how I found a place for my coffee table books?? Before this, they were squeezed together on top of a small wooden shelf with no sides. They flopped all over the place, I could never keep them balanced. This shelf also doesn't have sides, but it does have two thick columns that the books lean against quite nicely, and that keeps them in.
For the bookcase pics: it bothers me when you can't quite see a certain book on someone's shelves, so I checked before I left -- the two books that are really difficult to make out here are "Cuckoo's Egg" by C.J. Cherryh and "Jimmy's Blues," a collection of poems by James Baldwin.
We decided to put the garage shelves together while tipsy, listening to The Cure and Joy Division, which was lots of fun. I got all the spare books that were lying around after my reorganization, plus some that were lurking inside cupboards or in boxes, tucked away inside spare rooms XD Then my roommate moved on to the lamp/table and I got out my chromatic harmonica to search for good tabs.
(Basically, I just browse through the tabs other people have uploaded online, and I try them out to see if the notes are actually correct; if they are, I save them to return to later. Last night had some good ones -- "Nessun dorma," "Cabaret," some Christmas and country songs.)
( Book Pics )
I played for a good 2-3 hours, until I really couldn't manage most songs anymore XD I also read a good little chunk of "The Trials of Joan of Arc", up until the Ordinary Trial section -- the first 100 pages are consumed with Joan's pre-trial, basically her grand jury, where she's questioned extensively. Then the Ordinary Trial starts and they bring out the articles against her. My roommate at the same time was reading a collection of Kafka's aphorisms, which sounded like total nonsense to my drunk brain.
Ooh! See how I found a place for my coffee table books?? Before this, they were squeezed together on top of a small wooden shelf with no sides. They flopped all over the place, I could never keep them balanced. This shelf also doesn't have sides, but it does have two thick columns that the books lean against quite nicely, and that keeps them in.
For the bookcase pics: it bothers me when you can't quite see a certain book on someone's shelves, so I checked before I left -- the two books that are really difficult to make out here are "Cuckoo's Egg" by C.J. Cherryh and "Jimmy's Blues," a collection of poems by James Baldwin.
