Music cravings; unhealthy food tips
(Yes, still with the one-way communication. Sorry.)
Something fun to do with the leftover vanilla ice cream:
Mix 100 g sugar, 10 ml water in a small pot; cook until sugar caramelizes. Add some cream and a pinch of salt. (The result should be a simple form of caramel sauce.)
In another pot, melt some dark chocolate.
Scoop vanilla ice into a bowl, sprinkle with caramel sauce and melted chocolate.
(It's unhealthy food week at casa Hmpf.)
The problem with music
The problem with music is this: once you start looking a bit deeper into any band you like, you're bound to discover they've produced a dozen albums, all of which, of course, you immediately want to buy. Only you can't, because you have neither the money to buy, nor the space to keep so many CDs.
(Yes, I know there are non-material (and cheap) ways of getting music nowadays. But I *like* being able to put a CD on my shelf; I get the same kind of pleasure from looking at my CD shelf as I get from looking at my bookshelves; I haven't reached the point in my life yet where looking at the material record of the evolution of my present taste/mental landscape feels like a burden. I know I usually preach antimaterialism - and I'm pretty serious about that. But books and music, well, they are the only two exceptions to that philosophy for me. I can't live without a fairly regular supply of books, and my tastes are too strange to make borrowing or the local public library an option anyway; nor can I live entirely without the occasional new CD - though my buying urges are much more under control there than they are with books. To be fair, though, I buy my CDs used whenever possible. Books too, frequently.)
Anyway: I've just resigned myself to the fact that I will probably end up buying every, or nearly every single album Phideaux has/have ever produced. If www.justforkicks.de gets them back in stock. (Yes, I'm buying those new. Both because I'd like to support the band, and because I rather doubt I could get their CDs used from amazon.de. Too exotic/unknown.)
I also think I need to buy at least one album by these guys. No idea which one, though.
Something fun to do with the leftover vanilla ice cream:
Mix 100 g sugar, 10 ml water in a small pot; cook until sugar caramelizes. Add some cream and a pinch of salt. (The result should be a simple form of caramel sauce.)
In another pot, melt some dark chocolate.
Scoop vanilla ice into a bowl, sprinkle with caramel sauce and melted chocolate.
(It's unhealthy food week at casa Hmpf.)
The problem with music
The problem with music is this: once you start looking a bit deeper into any band you like, you're bound to discover they've produced a dozen albums, all of which, of course, you immediately want to buy. Only you can't, because you have neither the money to buy, nor the space to keep so many CDs.
(Yes, I know there are non-material (and cheap) ways of getting music nowadays. But I *like* being able to put a CD on my shelf; I get the same kind of pleasure from looking at my CD shelf as I get from looking at my bookshelves; I haven't reached the point in my life yet where looking at the material record of the evolution of my present taste/mental landscape feels like a burden. I know I usually preach antimaterialism - and I'm pretty serious about that. But books and music, well, they are the only two exceptions to that philosophy for me. I can't live without a fairly regular supply of books, and my tastes are too strange to make borrowing or the local public library an option anyway; nor can I live entirely without the occasional new CD - though my buying urges are much more under control there than they are with books. To be fair, though, I buy my CDs used whenever possible. Books too, frequently.)
Anyway: I've just resigned myself to the fact that I will probably end up buying every, or nearly every single album Phideaux has/have ever produced. If www.justforkicks.de gets them back in stock. (Yes, I'm buying those new. Both because I'd like to support the band, and because I rather doubt I could get their CDs used from amazon.de. Too exotic/unknown.)
I also think I need to buy at least one album by these guys. No idea which one, though.