Incessant Expressions

And we didn’t even DO that much! We had our shoot on Friday night and just hung out at home after that. I spent Saturday getting the Focus ready for tomorrow’s drive to Orlando and generally screwing off by sleeping late and grocery shopping. But today, today was fun. I finally broke in my Luhr-Jensen smoker and smoked all my fish — which was insanely delicious — and some chicken for later in the week. The salmon got a nice coating of Dales Seasoning and brown sugar while the Mahi Mahi got some kosher salt and lemon pepper. The chicken was split in half, one half got kosher salt while the other got a good mix of a cajun rub The fish was simply delicious and was complemented by some yellow and white corn as a side. It was all too much to eat and there’s still about a pound of it left that we’ll eat for lunch.

I think we’ll have the chicken Tuesday night since we’re working late and that takes all the guesswork out of cooking except for a side dish. I’m thinking rice or couscous or maybe some black eyed peas. Whatever it is, it’ll be good. Smoking all the food was as easy as my brother said it was, I barely did anything but add wood chips and check the temperature every so often.

I also changed the oil in my car today, it’d been so long. I was also running this thing two quarts short so I’m surprised it didn’t cease up at any point in the past. That took a whole lot longer than it should have since I had to send Jess off to get a new gasket for the drain pan as mine was nearly non-existent, another reason I’m surprised the thing even ran. Now, given how much I drive per year, I shouldn’t have to do this for another year or something, in that time I may accumulate 300 or 400 miles, tops. I’m not wasting my time in three months to change basically new oil.

I also just finished a new post-metal review that’ll be published later tomorrow at Band Names Not Brand Names — no direct link yet since it’s not published. It’s over Swallow The Ocean’s debut self-titled album from Forgotten Empires. I’ve been meaning to write this one for weeks but have just been putting it off, for no good reason. I’ve got a few grind reviews slated and I’m trying to scrape up some new black metal albums worth a damn to review. I’m so disappointed in BM over the last year, it’s just been so…generic. Can’t say that grind isn’t generic either, which it is, but at least I can get obvious differences in style but most BM is just one-dimensional “true” scene garbage. I want more Lurker of Chalice and Leviathan and Sargeist and on and on.

I really liked this weekend, I hope we can do fun stuff next weekend too. I didn’t get to build my shelves…again, I just ran out of time…again. We’ll be going to Shisha Cafe on Tuesday which should be awesome. I’m going to bed now to hopefully get a lot of sleep.

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