3, Monster Energy Zero Ultra is without a doubt my one in a day, every few days, fix. I have no idea why its combination of taste and energy boost has me hooked. I’ve tried to figure out what is about this zero sugar energy drink that makes it somehow better to me than the loads of others that have flooded the market. The best I can figure is that it just taste that good without being ridiculously sweet or bitter, while delivering a decent energy buzz.
2, Trader Joe’s San Francisco Blend Dark Roast, coarse ground, made in a French press. This is without a doubt the best bang for the buck coffee I’ve ever found. It is not silly dark, to the point of being able to taste the burned beans, or medium roast with a more ‘robust’ flavor of some sort. The San Francisco blend, for what it is at its price, is a Hell of a dark roast for brewing in a French press daily.
3, A properly made glass of absinthe. From the aroma of the anise as the bottle is uncapped, to the build of the off white green cream of the lusch as the chilled water merges into it as drops of water off the sugar cube that cascade around the spoon, the watching of its preparation is fascinating and hypnotic. For me preparing a glass of absinthe takes on the seriousness of some sort of faux gothic romance tea ceremony. I’ll even dress up in late Victorian garb, and take on a persona, to serve it if I can. I suppose it is some of the taboo that came with it being illegal in the U.S. till 2007, along with the various stories of its impact on artist such as Wilde, Poe, and Reznor. A properly done glass of absinthe is to me a longing for a tragically lost love amidst a mysterious past, on some foggy and ethereal moor, in the shadow of a dilapidated castle under a full moon, … it is just some Wuthering Heights gothic level shit taken into alcoholic form for me, which leaves me for the briefest of moments as I drink it in that place of dark romantic notions and fears my favorite literary and horror genre has passionately built up in my imagination.
