What are you into right now? What floats your boat?

[El Presidente]

What are you into right now? 

We all go through differing stages of life.....but shooting from the hip and right now: what floats your boat in:

•  cigar
•  music
•  reading/TV/cinema
• beverage
• hobby

[dominattorney]

I'll play. Lately, I've been smoking punch punch, enjoying Jerry Garcia band in the Donna and Keith godchaux era, reading about quantum physics, drinking Leopold brothers cherry whisky, and playing golf. 

[maxcjs0101]

•  cigar: Qunitero Favoritos 
•  music: Spiritual 
•  reading/TV/cinema: Seinfeld & Stand up comedy
• beverage: Apple cider
• hobby: Fishing

[ebhead]

• Cigar: Punch/RA - DC/Gigantes
• Music: Front 242/Fron Line Assembly - they're both coming to town over the next couple months and going to see them
• Reading: the Last Lion - Churchill biography
• Beverage: scotch
• Hobby (obsession): Photography/Weightlifting/Motorcycles (specifically learning everything on Harleys)

 

[El Presidente]

2 minutes ago, dominattorney said:

I'll play. Lately, I've been smoking punch punch, enjoying Jerry Garcia band in the Donna and Keith godchaux era, reading about quantum physics, drinking Leopold brothers cherry whisky, and playing golf. 

Fill me in on the Cherry Whisky! Quick review for us 

[rguinn]

• cigar - Epicure 2
•  music - Metallica
•  reading/TV/cinema - Game of thrones 
• beverage - bourbon
• hobby - golf, watches, guns, cigars, bourbon, knives 

great question!

[gweilgi]

Right now ...

cigars: binging on H Upmann -- Connoisseur, A, 46, 50 ... they are all good.

Music: binging on Deep Purple.  Had a hankering, and am working my way through the entire list.  

Reading: "Tea, a History of the Drink that Changed the World" by John Griffiths

TV: binging on The Wire -- missed it first time round, can't stop watching it now.

Beverage: working my way through my birthday present -- a sample box of a dozen different craft IPAs.  Beer is good....

Hobby: no time, too busy binging.

 

 

[JohnS]

• cigar - Rafael Gonzalez Perlas and El Rey del Mundo Demi Tasse  (main rotation)
•  music - David Bowie (from Hunky Dory 1971 to Scary Monsters 1980)
•  reading/TV/cinema - I'm going through the classic films of the 1920s that are in the 2012 Sight and Sound Top Critics Poll with my son, as he has a newfound passion for these films at the moment (I.e. Metropolis, Sunrise, Battleship Potemkin, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Pandora's Box etc)
• beverage - experimenting with the Gibson Cocktail and enjoying Bacardi Carta Fuego Rum, thanks to your recommendation, El Pres!
• hobby - learning some new songs with my band.

[MrGlass]

Cigar:  Nothing in particular - I have always favoured variety.
Music:  Underworld.
TV:  Just started working my way through Parks and Recreation.
Beverage:  Gin.
Hobby:  Flying trapeze has taken over my life in the past six months and I've begun working towards flying without safety lines.

[rickthecabbie]

•  cigar: PL Panatelas, I am a sucker for cheap and cheerful,
•  music: My Chemical Romance, The Black Parade. Their influences were Pink Floyd, Queen, and solid rock and roll structure.
  I lost a mate to cancer this year, and this album is really helping me through.
•  reading: A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson  I reread it frequently, it is fascinating, and I learn something new every time.
• T.V. "People of Earth" American. and "Back" U.K.  with Mitchel and Webb. I recently watched a show called "Spirited" with Claudia Karvan From Aus.
• Cinema: Waiting for another bloody Star Wars movie, again.
• beverage: My homemade Ginger Beer still has my attention. I built a kegerator for it.
• hobby: Studying Landscape Architecture so that I can fix up my garden in the style of Frederick Law Olmsted.
  I am a hopeless nerd.

[PapaDisco]

Cigars:  I'm with G: binging on H Upmann, mostly PC, Mag 50 (highlight of my summer discovering this) and Sir Winston (which used to be the only Upmann I loved).  I still search endlessly through piles of Punch Punch hoping to replicate my love of the dark and stormy '09's, but current Punch Punch are shallow hay piles IMHO ,  Punch DC continues to satisfy, PSD 4, Cohiba IV, VI, and a few others, but Upmann has my attention for now

Music: Anything with a violin solo.  In the last 60 days I've acquired multiple copies of the Paganini Caprices by different artists, just to compare: Rachel Barton Pine, Perlman, Midori, Mintz.  Currently can't let go of the Haydn Violin Concertos, check out Midori Seiler's excellent recording (all on period baroque instruments)

Reading: On Tyranny (Snyder), and a pile of math books  (did I say that out loud?)

TV:  Only what I can view on the plane.  Kinda pissed that Cathay had GOT last year but not this year. 

Beverage:  Pappy Van Winkles (prefer the 12 year Lot B ), Blanton's and Bookers.  There's wine in there too, but let's face it . . . we only drink that for basic hydration . . .  

Hobby: model rockets with my boys (9 and 11).  They got tired of their video payload rockets spinning and creating a dizzying vid, so now they're teaching me how to build an Arduino driven stabilization module for their rockets.  I know how to solder, but the rest of it is an absolute wonder!  And heavy . . . gonna need quite the engine(s) to get this thing in the air! 

[retrofail]

Cigar: Short on time lately so mostly anything PC, but heavy on the HUPC right now. 

Music: It's surprising to me, but ever since my wife drug me to see La La Land, I've been rolling through a lot of old jazz. 

Reading/TV/Cinema: Obssessed with WWII military history right now. Books and movies. 

Beverage: Bourbon, bourbon, bourbon. Or coffee. 

Hobby: Restoring an '76 Jeep CJ-5. Between cigars and the Jeep, I have zero dollars! 

[El Hoze]

1 hour ago, dominattorney said:

I'll play. Lately, I've been smoking punch punch, enjoying Jerry Garcia band in the Donna and Keith godchaux era, reading about quantum physics, drinking Leopold brothers cherry whisky, and playing golf. 

I love Keith, but I have always found Donna Jean could get a little too carried away with the yelling. I also never understood drums/space so could just be me! I never understood much quantum physics either (probably too many Dead shows) although I did read the Quark and the Jaguar by Murray Gell-Mann which is a pretty cool book on simplicity/complexity and complex adaptive systems. And most of all, agreed, Cherry Whisky?!? Tell us more!

[kuma]

not much. Sitting with a drink watching "battle Bots" on the TV.  These battling robots clock in at about 3 hubdred pounds.

It is like a war between remote controlled mayhem.  Real work goes into these "bots" with the idea of "kill or be killed"

in the ring.  Not sure if there is a money award for the winner after the last bot wins.  But I did see a large bolt

not sure what it was made of given to the winner of last years event.  Also watching the US Tennis Open.  Nadel

is a strong fav. to win the mens division and Venus looks like she has a real good chance of winning

the womens side of things at 37 years of age.   Getting ready for work Up at 5:00 am.  Start with  a good cup of coffee

fire up a Rob special pickup two newspapers roll the sun roof back and get my ass into work with a little time

to spare.

 

[dominattorney]

51 minutes ago, El Presidente said:

Fill me in on the Cherry Whisky! Quick review for us 

https://www.babliquor.com/products/leopold-michigan-cherry-whiskey?gdffi=0c1ee0071bee41f8b7d7bacbb2a8fac7&gdfms=5DBEBDE75D42461E971CF22671F80674&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&adpos=1o1&scid=scplpshopify_US_8276076552_27565479432&sc_intid=shopify_US_8276076552_27565479432&gclid=Cj0KCQjwub7NBRDJARIsAP7wlT9xtpyE68xDJ_RTdsyJbHzHetoqeMH-vinKYvVisx_4PV-LWAX9aa4aAnWkEALw_wcB

Forgive the long link on this one. It's not just any cherry whisky. I've had ones that taste like a bad cough drop. This one is a lovely balance of tart and sweet, slight emphasis on the sweetness, but it's also undeniably a whisky, tipping the scales at 40 percent abv. There is a Smokey undertone to it which makes it enjoyable either neat or on the rocks. However, I used it in a bpulivardier recipe and it just took off and stole the show. I think I'm in love. It's made in Colorado in a small distillery, I believe.

I would also point out that I would never have tried this on my own, but a bottle was gifted to me by a young attorney in my office whom I am mentoring after a difficult week, and I would highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys whisky on it's own, or to the amateur mixologist who enjoys their cocktails in the more spiritus end of the spectrum, but is looking to experiment. Excellent end of summer drink, that will have let's into the fall. If I may add, also a lovely compliment yo the fruity notes of the punch punch box I've been working my way through. 

[PatrickEwing]

58 minutes ago, gweilgi said:

Right now ...

cigars: binging on H Upmann -- Connoisseur, A, 46, 50 ... they are all good.

Music: binging on Deep Purple.  Had a hankering, and am working my way through the entire list.  

Reading: "Tea, a History of the Drink that Changed the World" by John Griffiths

TV: binging on The Wire -- missed it first time round, can't stop watching it now.

Beverage: working my way through my birthday present -- a sample box of a dozen different craft IPAs.  Beer is good....

Hobby: no time, too busy binging.

 

 

The Wire!!

Ive gone down that rabbit hole three times. 

[dominattorney]

29 minutes ago, El Hoze said:

I love Keith, but I have always found Donna Jean could get a little too carried away with the yelling. I also never understood drums/space so could just be me! I never understood much quantum physics either (probably too many Dead shows) although I did read the Quark and the Jaguar by Murray Gell-Mann which is a pretty cool book on simplicity/complexity and complex adaptive systems. And most of all, agreed, Cherry Whisky?!? Tell us more!

Cherry whisky discussed above. Regarding Donna and her catarwalling, I would agree, with the dead she could be downright tonedeaf at times. However, she came into her own in the smaller setting of the jgb, especially in songs like strange man, and Gomorrah. The quark and the jaguar is actually in my reading list. Currently reading roger Penrose cycles of time. Crazy stuff, but only understand half of it on a good day, before the whisky. 

[dominattorney]

6 minutes ago, PatrickEwing said:

The Wire!!

Ive gone down that rabbit hole three times. 

Who hasnt?

[btort910]

•  cigar- Mag 46s
•  music- jazz
•  reading/TV/cinema- Narcos
• beverage- bourbon, red wine
• hobby- golf, travel

[cigcars]

        Favorite Cigar:     Anything Cohiba Siglo series

        Music:                  I LOVE piano. George Gershwin, Ferrante & Teicher, Ramsey Lewis - YEAH! 

        Reading:             A dictionary covering Tolkein's Middle Earth and characters in the fellowship of the ring series

        TV/Cinema:         I LIVE for Bill Maher's "Overtime" every Friday evening on HBO, and current favorite movie, "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2"

        Beverage:           Just my accompanying iced herbal teas sweetened with raw honey

        Hobby:                Puppies Daily and Puppies Are Adorable on Facebook. I should learn - I can't  get off those Facebook pages whenever I bring                              those sites up.  Those sites are responsible for my not being able to get to bed past 3:00am because I'm glued to all those pictures of                            those  cute little puppies!                                    

                                                                  

                                    

 

[ShortFatHokie]

Cigars:  All over the place but have found the Trinidad Reyes to be quite enjoyable right now.

Music:  Been listening to a lot of Steely Dan, especially since Walter Becker's passing this past week.

Reading/TV/Cinema:  Thank God college football is back...

Beverage:  Been tearing it up with Italian reds...Brunellos, Barolos, Super Tuscans

Hobby:  My wife and I have been playing tons of pickleball for the past two months with our "healthy" friends...we have "healthy friends" who love to bike/hike/anything outdoors and we have "drinking friends" which we will hook up with every Saturday now that its football season.  I've lost nearly 20lbs in the process.

[BrightonCorgi]

•  cigar - VR Unicos, Mag46, Punch Punch, PL Robustos
•  music - Scorpions, Ratt, Judas Priest, Dokken...
•  reading/TV/cinema - Great British Baking Show, The Strain, GoT, and going to see "It" tonight.
• beverage - Musar, Cote Rotie, Douro DOC
• hobby - Auto detailing, cycling, BBQ, doing stuff with our corgi.

[wabashcr]

10 hours ago, El Hoze said:

I love Keith, but I have always found Donna Jean could get a little too carried away with the yelling. I also never understood drums/space so could just be me! I never understood much quantum physics either (probably too many Dead shows) although I did read the Quark and the Jaguar by Murray Gell-Mann which is a pretty cool book on simplicity/complexity and complex adaptive systems. And most of all, agreed, Cherry Whisky?!? Tell us more!

There are plenty of Playing in the Bands that are unlistenable because of Donna, but overall I like what she brought to the music most of the time.  She and Bobby are beautiful together on Looks Like Rain.  Just perfect on top of Jerry's meandering yet poignant guitar.  I could listen to that all day.  

[Luca]

• cigar: ERDM Demi Tasse & JLP Petit Cetros (Thank you @NSXCIGAR for the hot tips on the Petit Cetros).
• music: Been listening (over and over) to the album Afro-Cuban by Kenny Dorham.
• reading/TV/cinema: At the moment I have my head in uni texts. The only TV I watch is when my girlfriend puts on Law & Order SVU.
• beverage: Can't say just one but..... Long blacks (3 a day), Wine, Coopers (Red, Green, Yellow, Dr Tims) and Oak Cross Whiskey.
• hobby: My Rx7 (when I get some time with it) and buying parts for it.

[HeadInTheClouds]

•  cigar - PSD4s or CoRos lately (Im waiting on my order of Siglo IIs, Secretos, and Magicos)
•  music - Not really been listening to any music lately, if I do its just whatever is the latest hits on the radio
•  reading/TV/cinema - Reading has been Wendell Odom's ICND1 Cert Guide as Im trying to get my CCNA by the end of the year.
• As for TV I just started Season 3 of Narcos, while trying to start Ozark as well. Both are on Netflix 
• beverage - Since I live in Indiana I mainly drink 3 Floyds all the time. Permanent Funeral, Zombie Dust, Gumballhead, Arctic Panzer Wolf  are my main drinks from them. They specialize in aggressively hopped beers, and are known nationally for their beers. 
• hobby - Been doing a lot of golfing and PC gaming whenever I'm not at work. Main game I've been playing has been Player Unknowns Battlegrounds. Such a fun but frustrating game.