Planet Tokyo | Doco Watching

Planet Tokyo About to watch this documentary on the Iraq war: Video:  Inside the Iraq War [1:16:07] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5qNWkQ_zKA Was curious if it would be a propaganda documentary and suspected it would be when I heard the American accent of the narrator. Checking out the reader comments confirms it is propaganda. Viewer Comment [CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE] I think that's a small typo and that guy is saying "deal with the fog in your eyes ...". I'm still going to watch it while I'm waking up, because I've never watched anything to do with modern warfare or, really, anything on wars in the Middle East ... or any wars.   Used to watch some of the short clips of the independence fighters in Novorossiya defending their homeland, in what is known in the modern era as 'east Ukraine' (historic Russian empire territory).  Admired their courage.  Almost wished I could be there.  But I'd be scared and useless.  LOL Wish I could listen to music and watch at the same time, but I can't.  I won't hear the narration. I'm stuffing around having 'breakfast', running a bath & planning another risotto. Risotto will be seafood-based, and I'm using Paella as an inspiration for today's risotto, with chicken, smoked bacon or ham and seafood. [RIGHT-CLICK, 'NEW TAB'] [RIGHT-CLICK, 'NEW TAB'] Part I completed.  Some of the ingredients prepped between watching video (on pause) and bath etc. Once I prep the meat & seafood, I'm good to go. Just listening to music now and helping empty the beer fridge .... only it doesn't need emptying and I really don't drink, so I probably won't get through much more than a glass of beer.  And the beer fridge has already been emptied.  I can't believe how much beer Mr Semi-Off-His-Face can drink.  It's obscene. I thought I'd help, just to get rid of it.  And I feel sort of depressed today, so I thought I'd take the beer cure and see if it works for me.  LOL Wow, that beer went down really easy.  I'm going to have another.  LOL ... I might not be able to cook after a few.   It will be good demonstration for Mr Semi-Off-His-Face.  If I start getting smashed, he might not like it so much. Listening AUDIO | #1.0 I like the repetition and the force. AUDIO | #2.0 AUDIO | #2.1 AUDIO | #3.0  AUDIO | #3.1

Planet Tokyo | Hard Rain

Planet Tokyo Woke up feeling like death. Expect it's because I've done a no-sleep double set of long spells, where I've had a brief amount of sleep between maybe a stretch of a couple of days without sleep or near enough and then another couple?  Not really sure.  I can't keep track of time any longer.  Maybe it was slightly less than 2 days or near enough to it?   Time is just a stretch that feels different, depending on what I'm doing at the time.  Sometimes it feels like a moment but it's hours.  Sometimes moments feel like hours.  LOL Yesterday my thinking would just stop and pause mid whatever I was doing for what felt like a really long stretches of 'woolly' liquid time.  It was really weird having involuntary stretches of being on marshmallow 'pause'.  I couldn't even write something simple.  I kept changing my mind.  Nothing looked right.  Really indecisive.   Not sure if that's lack of sleep, or if it's just me. Without sleep, I'm probably even more useless than I already am.  But it was sort of fun.  I finally slept when I was exhausted and could stand no more.  It's possible to break through the 'must sleep' barrier, if you can engage in some activity that sort of kick-starts the awake brain/emotion thing again.  But I'm not sure how long it's possible to do that - as in, if you can keep repeating that.  Wasn't game to repeat a third long stretch without sleep. Not sure if it's a side-effect of no sleep or a side-effect of always being tuned out and engrossed in whatever absorbs my attention, but I had the most horrible feeling when I joined Mr Semi-Off-His-Face for a cigarette outdoors, which I hardly ever do because I hardly smoke now.  I just have long cravings that are there all the time in the background, drowned out by my focus on whatever I'm interested in. I felt like I didn't know him.  Like he was a complete stranger.  Even his face.  LOL ... it was the creepiest feeling of alienation I have ever felt.  Mr Semi-Off-His-Face was a complete stranger and his face was creeping me out.  I didn't like his face.  LMAO ... it was like somebody else.  I don't know what that's about. I tried to tell him, but he just began arguing with me.  I can't tell him anything without his getting defensive and just arguing with me. I woke up today and told him if he doesn't trim his eyebrows, I'm leaving him. It's not just his eyebrows, it's the scowl he gets on his face when he's been drinking and it's how he speaks to me.  I feel alienated and strongly grossed out. And I can't stand his drinking any longer.  It makes me sick.  I find it repulsive.  It even changes how his face looks, and I really don't like how he looks and sounds when he's been drinking.  It changes the look on his face, it changes the sound of his voice and it changes his personality.  I feel like I don't know him.  I can no longer relate to him. I tried to tell him, but he won't listen.  It's impossible to speak to him.  He just argues with me. I think he thinks I'm kidding when I tell him I'm leaving him.  When he's drunk I can't stand any more.  I felt like I could just about have a mental breakdown being around his drinking.  It's just the drinking.  It doesn't have to be much drinking.  Any drinking.  Drinking looks ugly to me. The only new thing here is that I'm going to have a breakdown ... and I don't know who he is and cannot relate at all.  LOL. It's impossible to tell him anything.  I don't think he believes me when I tell him I've had enough.  He won't listen.  He shuts me down with sort of 'aggressive' argument, before he's even heard me out.  He doesn't even believe me when I tell him I'm going to have a breakdown.  He just laughs.  LOL I wish he would just stop drinking.  I could live with anything but the drinking.  I can't stand the drinking.  I don't understand why he won't stop and I'm sick of it.  I'm so sick of it that I cannot stand the sight of it or the smell of it.  I find it repulsive. I should e-mail him my post, but I couldn't be stuffed looking for my e-mail.  LOL.  Maybe he'll check out the blog and get an update like that. The post will get lost by the time he checks out the blog, as he's really not into the things I'm into. We disagree about everything.  I want to move somewhere completely alien ... even if I probably wouldn't cope well, LOL.  I just have an urge.  He's someone who wouldn't even want to move across state.  But I want to leave.  Or I think I want to leave.  I'm not sure.  I just don't feel satisfied.   I'm not sure what anchors him  and why it does not anchor me. The two of us are foreign countries already.  Our ambassadors have been recalled.  We're Libya.  LOL Yes, he and I are Libya. There's two governments.  It's chaos.  But the civil war is over ... it's nothing but devastation. I'm not liking any of the music I'm listening to.  It's boring me. I'm boring.  I only ever like the same things. It's frustrating me not being able to find something different to listen to. AUDIO | 1.0 This is OK. AUDIO |  2.0 Think I like this guy's ears.  I'm raiding his tracks list.  LOL I absolutely love this. I don't know what it is about it, but it feels so good. I like the long stretchy bits with the short bouncy or 'hoppy' bits. LOL AUDIO |  3.0 LOL ... I never listen to reggae.  But I don't mind this. AUDIO | 4.0 more humour _______________________________________ Or am I the only one that finds this funny? I felt really guilty for being so intolerant and so self-involved. So I thought I'd head over to the 'Libya #2 government' watching TV stretched out on the couch, to reconnect. He told me to go away. LMAO. I'm interfering with his watching TV. LOL I don't know if I'm still off my head from no sleep, but I'm finding him shooing me away really hilarious, when I was suffering such guilts.

Planet Tokyo | Stirfry

Planet Tokyo Stirfry [RIGHT-CLICK IMAGE, 'NEW TAB'] Impromptu stirfry Impromptu because I don't think about cooking any longer and find myself having to 'surprise' cook.  It's weird.  Hours can go by and I'm doing my thing, without realising I'd better get a move on and do something about food.  The stirfry looks better than it first tasted.  Used the last of my DIY Teriyaki sauce, plus chilli sauce, tomato sauce, stock, cornflour slurry thickener.  Not as nice as I anticipated, as I watered down the sauce too much.  But a good splash of soy and Kecap Manis made it edible.  I've come back to watch the Alex Jones (Info Wars) 'October Surprise' interview, but I'm not taking much in. Think I've filled my head with too much crap today and I'm having an info overload or something.  I've spent hours just looking at crap, and it feels like no time at all has passed to me. Being here is doing my head in.  It's like I've died and gone to hell.  There's only so much music I can listen to, but if I'm not plugged in listening to something loudly, all I can hear is a blaring TV (even wearing headphones ... which I like wearing just about all the time, as I just zone out absorbed in whatever I look at).  Mr Semi-Off-His-Face has an ear infection that's lingering (stuffed up not taking what he was prescribed, and then dawdled with the follow-up visit to the doctor). So he's had an ear infection for maybe 2 or 3 weeks and hearing loss ... which is why the TV's blaring.  He also speaks really loudly when he addresses me (due to the hearing issue he's now having) ... and I have to repeat myself, what feels like a million frustrating times, to be understood by him.  I might ask him to write me notes or text me.  I'm not kidding.  I'd be happy to communicate solely in writing. The drinking is doing my head in so much, I feel like throwing back a few myself.  Seriously.  I just want to knock myself out.  I want oblivion.  Alcohol's no good to me, though.  I can't drink.  I'd just vomit.  LOL It doesn't matter how many times I ask that he not drink:  he drinks.  It's like I've never spoken.  It's got to the point where I'm telling him if he doesn't stop, I'm going to have a mental breakdown.  LOL ... think I've been having one the last couple of years.  Wish it was over with already.  I'm sick of this. He alternates between arguing with me, defensive about his drinking and having a go at my various shortfalls (LOL ... plenty to choose from), or just laughing at me.  Yes, he's laughing, while I'm probably losing the plot. This is beautiful: "O THERE came a wraith in the dead of night, And her rasping voice was cold and sad As she stood by the side of my small white bed,And tore what scanty elf-locks she had. And her face was round as the summer moon, And white and wan and heavy-eyed; And she wept and groaned in the weird moonlight, And oft she looked at me and sighed. O Banshee weird, I cried in fear, Why hauntest thou me in the dead of night? But a fearsome groan was all I heard, And the shrill, high laugh of a goblin sprite. And her garments rattled around her form, And the elf-man chuckled in horrid glee, And drifted away on a moonbeam white,And left the Banshee alone with me."  [source] Listening to Alex Jones is also hell. I can't stand that high energy thing he has happening.  I'm in some overwhelmed state and listening to that is major overload.  Not taking in a single thing.  Think the long spell without sleep did me no good.  It was about 2 days.   This overwhelmed, going under feeling, must be the come-down.  LOL ... I'll probably snap back after a proper sleep.  What I had probably isn't enough for the 2-day stretch I had yesterday. 1909 illustration AUDIO | #1.0 AUDIO | #2.0 Music is never loud enough for me. LOL ... I feel better for having seen this.  I love photos.  I could look at images forever.   'Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums'

Planet Tokyo | The Kitchen - Seafood Plan

Planet Tokyo Menu Plan The Sauce White sauce with splash of white wine (blend ahead with corn flour) with splash of brandy handful or so Parmesan potentially fresh thyme (undecided) fresh parsley hot English mustard peeled, pulverised fresh tomato good slug of tomato sauce chilli sauce Tabasco sauce maybe some Worcestershire sauce The Prawns quick wok fry of fresh prawns / throw into sauce The Rice plain might be better than fancy ... but I have an urge to mess with rice inspired by Indian, but not Indian fry onion / garlic / bay leaves / fennel seeds / capsicum add fresh tomato (peeled & chopped) & any other (eg paprika, chilli or whatever)  add washed rice / fry off add frozen peas  / sliced mushrooms (I need to get rid of) / handful of chopped fresh spinach (final 5 mins). add stock simmer 20-25 mins Vegetables Extras pumpkin / microwave broccoli / wok fry Technique for combining white wine into white sauce here. Other inspirations (although different style - ie. cream-based  sauce):  here and here. I'm not sticking to any recipe.  Just using recipes for ideas. Making it up as I feel like doing. Complicated rice is probably overkill, but I've got an urge. Maybe I should resist the urge.  LOL.  Yep.  Might resist the urge to mess with that today and throw the tomato into my sauce, after I give it a food processor whizz.  What a pain.  It means having to wash the food processor after mushing one single tomato. Edit:  threw most of my extra sauce condiment type ingredients into the blender, so that my white sauce prep is reduced to making  basic white sauce (with a fried onion/garlic base), tipping in  the mushed fresh tomato & various condiments combo in one single hit, followed by the wine blend thingy, and then by handful of Parmesan cheese & any herb I want. This could either turn out really nice ... or disastrous.   L I S T E N I N G AUDIO | #1.0 This was #1 hit in UK when Iraq was illegally invaded: "Spirit In The Sky" by Gareth Gates reached #1 on 16 March 2003 (source) Illegal invasion Iraq days later, on:  20 March 2003 Next #1 hit UK "Make Luv (Original Mix)" by Junior Jack reached #1 on:  30-03-2003 (source) I don't like the 'Make Luv' song.  It's horrible. Can't work out the US charts at the time. Dixi Chicks remade the Fleetwood Mac song 'Landslide' that year.  I prefer Fleetwood Mac.  But I'm not into this slow song. This is my favourite Fleetwood Mac, I think.  Even though it's slow, it has impact.  I like the force of the drum. It was all fun and games until I got a scowling face because the rice was 'cold' (his idea of 'cold' and mine don't match ...  LOL) ... And I got the whining because I did Asian vegetables in Teriyaki to go with the seafood creation.  LMAO. For an instant, I was so pissed off, I could seriously have broken up with him right that minute over his scowling face.  That's how much it pisses me off.  All I need is to look at that scowling face and it's over. I'm going to have to take a photo the next time he pulls it, so I can pin it up on the refrigerator as a reminder of his charming nature.  LOL LOL ... he told me I'm 'getting worse', whatever that means.  At cooking, I presume.  PMSL. I think he's just having a bad day.  No way was that a bad meal.  He's off his head.  LOL I'm not mega upset that I had scowling complaints about the food and my competence.  I'm laughing too much to care. PS ...  Mr F*ck Face ate his entire meal, so how bad could it have been?  Nothing wrong with it.  Teriyaki vegies are a bit of an overkill, but who cares?  They just go down the hatch.   I'm so sick of cooking.  It's so pointless.  All that hassle for something that disappears in an instant and gets crapped out.  LOL Nice & Loud

Planet Tokyo | Corned Beef, Trivia & Political Lulz

Planet Tokyo Yesterday's dinner ... [RIGHT-CLICK IMAGE, 'NEW TAB']  CORNED BEEF, WHITE SAUCE, VEGETABLES  CORNED BEEF, RED CABBAGE & CARROTS  CORNED BEEF, WHITE SAUCE, VEGETABLES WHITE SAUCE [RIGHT-CLICK IMAGE, 'NEW TAB'] The corned beef wasn't my idea.  I was reluctant because I couldn't be bothered (it was more fun playing pictures and making video clips ... LOL). But once I got going, it was so easy to do.  And it was a nice meal. The white sauce I made was really yummy.  I could eat nothing but white sauce.  In this one, I put in some hot English mustard and Parmesan. I like extras in mine. Today, I'm out of ideas.  So, it's probably a frozen curry of some kind.   I'm so glad I'm kind of OK at making curry.  It means not having to cook for ages.  LOL EDIT:  frozen chilli con carne won the day.  Exciting day today:  I can see grey hairs in the front of my hair.  As I find it aesthetically pleasing, I'm good with the grey ... but I'm not too impressed with the shorter hairs in the front.  It must be either broken hair (WTF?) or just my hair growing back after shedding non-stop for a couple of years.  Was curious why some music is so depressing: Music affects various parts of brain meter, timber, rhythm and pitch of music = managed in areas of brain re emotions = key areas are: hippocampus     - located each temporal lobe     - part of limbic system, & associated with memory and spatial navigation     - involved in memory formation, memory organization, & memory storing     - emotional responses [C16: from Latin, from Greek hippos horse + kampos a sea monster] [thefreedictionary] prefrontal cortex     - where personality is formed     - language fluency     - decision-making     - manages impulses and emotions     - inappropriate behaviour stopper parietal lobe     - sensory information integration / processing:  taste, temperature, touch     - spatial orientation     - cognition Music, change mood: music used in mood-altering therapy (depressed, anxious) & other uses - release of serotonin (soothing tunes)      happiness / sense of well-being - release of dopamine / feel-good neurotransmitter     paves way to release of:  norepinephrine (hormone:  euphoria, elation) http://examinedexistence.com/how-music-changes-your-mood/         http://brainmadesimple.com/hippocampus.html         http://brainmadesimple.com/frontal-lobe.html         http://brainmadesimple.com/parietal-lobe.html So if mood can be changed to depressed and feeling like sh*t by listening to depressing music, the reverse must be true.  Uplifting music would lift mood and relaxing music would presumably relax. But ... I'm not that into relaxing or uplifting music.  I prefer dramatic, high energy, up tempo, quirky (sometimes silly stuff), and maybe some kind of mood associated with the music that appeals at the time. Study of musicians made me laugh (because it sounds so absurd): ...  study found that over 60-percent of musicians have suffered from depression or other psychological issues, while 71-percent of those asked say that touring is a major factor in their mental health issues. source Either they're making really depressing music, or touring really is crap.  We just argued because I haven't got sufficient pre-frontal control not to swear (very loudly) when I f*ck up editing and have to repeat ... and because he's an assh*le that then has a go at me in the whiny-aggressive way he does, that makes me want to be sick. LOL Is there a musical cure for that, I wonder? Just noticed this remark by a musician, explaining the depressed state of musicians: ... producer Mat Zo explained why he feels the way he feels on tour. “Ninety-nine per cent of touring is the airports, the hotels, sitting in a metal tube for up to 16 hours at a time. It’s easy to let your mind and body slip into decay, even for a person with a healthy emotional state. For those with anxiety, hotel rooms are like prison cells.” source When that's just the effects of touring on musicians hanging around transit lounges and hotel rooms, which are compared to prison, IMAGINE what it must be like to be under siege in an embassy for over 4 years, surrounded by police 24/7 and living under constant UK state political persecution, as does Australian journalist-publisher, Julian Assange.  That's over 4 years of a police siege plus about a year and a half of other forms of state detention in the UK, WITHOUT CHARGE - and in need of urgent medical and dental treatment.  The UK, Swedish, Australian and American collaborative POLITICAL PERSECUTION of this AUSSIE JOURNALIST is UNDEMOCRATIC and CRIMINAL. LINK | Assange Psychiatric & Medical Report LINK | United Nations Group on Arbitrary Detention Decision: Arbitrarily and Unlawfully Detained. PLEASE SUPPORT AUSSIE JOURNALIST JULIAN ASSANGE @WikiLeaks LINK | Justice4Assange PLEASE SUPPORT WIKILEAKS LINK | WikiLeaks Shop LMAO ... just noticed a 'women's underwear' section at WikiLeaks shop.   I'm not sure I'd want undies with any kind of 'leaks' branding on them.   It reminds me of incontinence ...  And incontinence reminds me of Hillary Clinton's private e-mail server.  This is better than music therapy.  I'm laughing so hard I'm nearly crying.  Even my argumentative offsider is laughing. But he doesn't know what I'm laughing at ... he's just laughing at me laughing. LOL ... via hddude45 via KennartstheKing PUTIN'S EVERYWHERE! U K R A I N E I S R A E L LINK |  ARTICLE

Planet Tokyo | Chicken Paprikash & Mongolian Throat Singing

Planet Tokyo The Kitchen Planet Tokyo CHICKEN PAPRIKASH [RIGHT-CLICK, 'NEW TAB'] [RIGHT-CLICK, 'NEW TAB'] USED this recipe as a rough guide, but otherwise I did my own thing. In mine, I've put in the following: - fennel seeds - garlic - carrots - mushrooms (loads) - splash of white wine - tin tomatoes (blitzed) - tomato paste. Simmering. Water boiling.  Will serve with noodles. We eat rice just about every day, so noodles is a pleasant change. *Taste test:  very good.  / Plan:  cornflour slurry (I like thick gravy). Listening to: Bulgarian Choir vs. Mongolian Singers AUDIO | #1.0 It's beautiful. I love the vibrations of the throat singing, combined with the soar of the female voices. Eurpean Diversity | White Diversity I love this ... Yozdole ide | Wedding Song "wedding is regarded as a battle in the Bulgarian folk tradition" AUDIO | #2.0 The drumming combined with what sounds like horse hooves sounds beautiful.  I could listen to this all day.