but she don't look like the same girl we met
[a] this weekend, smartlikejustin and i watched eastern promises -- on the dvd extras, there is a little making-of segment that's full of classic viggo mortensen batshittery: viggo learned russian, viggo read a book about russian tattoos, viggo went to russia, viggo made friends with russian mobsters, etcet. etcet. etcet. at one point he tells a story about how the tattoos took so long to apply that sometimes he didn't bother to wash them off, and one time he went out to eat without washing off the tattoos and he was eavesdropping on a sitting near him speaking in russian (because, of course, he learned enough russian for the part that he could effectively eavesdrop) and he realized that they were talking about him, and staring, because they could see the tattoos on his hands and they actually thought he was a member of the vory v zakone. at which point we were like, hahah, oh viggo, it's just like the time you almost got arrested for brandishing a sword while walking around downtown wellington. crazy batshit viggo, never change.
[b] so, the first week in january, in a fit of new year's existential ennui, i dyed my hair black. uhh ... this was not necessarily a good idea! as many might recall from the three self-involvedly hellish years i spent trying to grow my hair out, my hair grows at a glacially slow pace. but a month and a half later, i'm sporting some pretty serious roots. and i'm pretty sure that the light roots/dark hair combination looks TERRIBLE, but i can't really be assed to do anything about it. every morning i look in the mirror and think, "wow, that looks pretty bad," but do i do anything about it? no, i do not! i think i am sort of fascinated by how bad it might get. especially since my hair is three different le ngths (inch or so short in the back, chin length on the sides, bangs in the front), so it is probably going to grow out in three different phases. that's gonna look great.
obligatory photographic evidence:
oh, the humanity.
[c] i really like the phinney bread and chocolate bar (because i'm a bougtarded asshole), which is a dark chocolate bar with crumbs of sourdough bread and little bursts of sea salt. about a month ago i tried to recreate these flavors by making a salted chocolate bread pudding and it was ... really gross. but this weekend, i made a recipe for mini flourless chocolate cakes (in muffin tins) and added probably a cup and a half of toasted sourdough bread crumbs and about a teaspoon of sea salt (maybe more? i kept adding by the quarter-teaspoon and tasting it to see, which was actually really gross because flourless chocolate cake batter is, you know, 2/3rds eggs, so it was like eating chocolate slime and i probably gave myself salmonella) and, they are, hey, pretty good. if you like the chocolate and salt combination, i highly recommend it.
[b] so, the first week in january, in a fit of new year's existential ennui, i dyed my hair black. uhh ... this was not necessarily a good idea! as many might recall from the three self-involvedly hellish years i spent trying to grow my hair out, my hair grows at a glacially slow pace. but a month and a half later, i'm sporting some pretty serious roots. and i'm pretty sure that the light roots/dark hair combination looks TERRIBLE, but i can't really be assed to do anything about it. every morning i look in the mirror and think, "wow, that looks pretty bad," but do i do anything about it? no, i do not! i think i am sort of fascinated by how bad it might get. especially since my hair is three different le ngths (inch or so short in the back, chin length on the sides, bangs in the front), so it is probably going to grow out in three different phases. that's gonna look great.
obligatory photographic evidence:
oh, the humanity.
[c] i really like the phinney bread and chocolate bar (because i'm a bougtarded asshole), which is a dark chocolate bar with crumbs of sourdough bread and little bursts of sea salt. about a month ago i tried to recreate these flavors by making a salted chocolate bread pudding and it was ... really gross. but this weekend, i made a recipe for mini flourless chocolate cakes (in muffin tins) and added probably a cup and a half of toasted sourdough bread crumbs and about a teaspoon of sea salt (maybe more? i kept adding by the quarter-teaspoon and tasting it to see, which was actually really gross because flourless chocolate cake batter is, you know, 2/3rds eggs, so it was like eating chocolate slime and i probably gave myself salmonella) and, they are, hey, pretty good. if you like the chocolate and salt combination, i highly recommend it.