Beer bread
Crunchy on the outside, soft on the inside. 1 Cup white, 1 cup whole meal and 300ml of murphys stout.
What I read this January and February.
Last year I only read 30 books. That includes huge novels such as Brothers Karamazov, the Idiot and Anna Karenina.
So far to beat that, for the first two months of the year, I've read 5. I have been busy with 'things' and tend to try and squeeze an hour's reading everyday.
Resurrection, Tolstoy. Different to other works. The style is more direct. It is about a nobleman who got his childhood friend, a servant girl, pregnant and forgot about her. He stumbles upon her later in life in court as a prostitute and tries to make up for it. 3/5
Galapagos, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Sci-fi Darwinism. A group of stranded humans -the only ones left, are stranded on the Galapagos and evolve. 2/5.
No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy. Thriller written with Cormac's minimal style. A Vietnam veteran comes across a bag load of drug money and is chased by a violent psychopath. 4/5.
Notes from Underground, Dostoyevsky. Existentialist ramblings of an outcast. Not for those who are presently comfortable in society or life, if so I doubt you could relate to it. Written in two parts. The philosophy of the underground man, and a short story. I prefer his later work like the Idiot. 4/5.
Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller. I find it funny how this was banned for so long. At first Miller tries to hard to shock with the four letter c word with efforts that seem laughable in today's context. However after a couple pages he writes, and writes well. Dream like at times with pages and pages of raw description and monologues. 3/5.
I haven't done much with this blog in the past two years. A lot has changed -I have changed, though not my choices in operating systems, I still run linux everyday and swear by it, and I still grow hops by the dozen and brew beer with them. However I don't know what to blog about any more.
And so I'll point you to my posterous: dharmabum.posterous.com. A mixture of quick blogging, multimedia, writing, my photography and hop growing.
"One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple." — Jack Kerouac.
And so I'll point you to my posterous: dharmabum.posterous.com. A mixture of quick blogging, multimedia, writing, my photography and hop growing.
"One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple." — Jack Kerouac.
Seeds
Got a few more seeds, fancy packeted ones too, in the post today.
Cinderella pumpkins, Sweet dumpling squash, Waltham butternut Squash, and, the one I'm most excited about, Brandywine tomatoes -I hate growing tomatoes but these are the biggest and one of the hardest to grow, a fun challenge and something different I'll be able to blog about.
Kerouac's Belief and Technique for Modern Prose
I especially agree with 3 and 1 -in that order.
1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
2. Submissive to everything, open, listening
3. Try never get drunk outside yr own house
4. Be in love with yr life
5. Something that you feel will find its own form
6. Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
7. Blow as deep as you want to blow
8. Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind
9. The unspeakable visions of the individual
10. No time for poetry but exactly what is
11. Visionary tics shivering in the chest
12. In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you
13. Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition
14. Like Proust be an old teahead of time
15. Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog
16. The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye
17. Write in recollection and amazement for yourself
18. Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea
19. Accept loss forever
20. Believe in the holy contour of life
21. Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind
22. Dont think of words when you stop but to see picture better
23. Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning
24. No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge
25. Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it
26. Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form
27. In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness
28. Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better
29. You're a Genius all the time
30. Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven
Propagating Gooseberries from cuttings
...is easy. I cut some last week and they are already growing.
Take a cutting of newer wood a few inches long. Between 8 Or 12 is ideal. Stip the lower buds leaving 4 or 5 at the top. Make a slopping cut at the top -leave the bottom level.
Place outside or indoors in pots for extra growth, with the lowest bud 1-2 inch above soil.
Easy.
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