Know what I stopped doing for a long time? Listening to albums all the way through. I always got fixated on just one or two songs and then forget about everything else. This summer I have been making an effort to stop doing this so much. Working at Buy the Book helped a lot, mostly because there is no computer there so it is a lot harder to switch from track to track.
Albums I Listened To All The Way Through This Summer (On A Regular Basis, I Mean)
- Oh, My Darling by Basia Bulat
- Golden Age of Radio and Hello Starling by Josh Ritter (actually, all Josh Ritter)
- Stay Positive by The Hold Steady
- LaDeDa by Joel Plaskett Emergency
- Putting the Days to Bed by The Long Winters
- Fables by Immaculate Machine
- Faces in the Rocks by Mariee Sioux
- Tallahassee by The Mountain Goats (I listened to this a lot, actually)
- Alligator by The National
- Reunion Tour by The Weakerthans
- Golden Delicious by Mike Doughty
- Volume One by She and Him
Things I Want to Learn to Cook
- pie crust
- chicken Parmesan
- pesto
- bread dough (for bread, but also for cinnamon buns)
- salmon cakes
- cheesecake
- antipasto
