I cannot reccommend anyone go to burger wisconson. the atmosphere in there was weirdly dense, kind of foggy. Soggy, like the chips were. also in the magazine baskst i ate next to, there was an extremely aged Alex the Lion mcdonalds toy that had to be at least a decade old. scary stuff.

Conversely, i would reccomend that everyone watch Sinners [2025]. i didnt know much about the movie going in. I hadnt seen any trailers, so my knowledge was limited to the facts that it had a mostly black cast (at least 2 micheal B jordans), something about vampires, and that it was probably a good move (a rarity in the 2025 cinema). (spoilers) the opening mini "jumpscares" really primed me to think id accidentally stumbled into a horror movie, which kept me thoroughly on edge throught until the start of the final act. i also totally thought sammy was a vampire at the beginning, so I was going through the whole thing like "aw man, this is such a cool guy, shame hes gonna die at the end". great movie overall.

May 10th, 2025

Following on from my personal 'rediscovering' of Gorillaz earlier this year (see Old Site/2025 for more on this), I'd listened to this album a coulple times through. However, it wasnt until I watched a good video last night that the band kind of opened up to me. There was a whole extra level of complexity here that I never knew! There was lore! Noodle dies in an island crash / helicopter attack and gets brought back as a cyborg! So today I listened to the album while bussing around town, and really heard it in a new light. I'm not quite sure yet, but I think Stylo is my favorite track.
(the only reason the lemonade is here is because the only place I've ever been able to get it is a supermarket next to the bus interchange, so it's linked in my mind to taking the bus)

May 12th, 2025

A couple of games I've been playing recently! I'm super happy I picked up Haste, sort of on a whim. I had seen some good looking footage, then I found out it was developed by Landfall, which was the final sell. What I got was one of the slickest movement systems I've ever had the pleasure to use. Real dopamine in a bottle stuff. A great soundtrack too, brings me back to the days of Clustertruck.
Also experienced the semi-regular brain parasite that urges you to start another Skyrim playthrough recently, and I tried something I hadn't before. I'm usually all about magic with the occasional one handed sword, and wouldn't be caught dead in light armor, but I forwent those this time around and had a lot of fun. There really is a simple pleasure to be derrived from playing as a buff lizard woman who hits things with a big hammer.

June 1st, 2025

This has pretty much been my life for the past week. I mean, part of the fun of a new game is getting to watch lots of different people play it, and see how they react! One of the better things you can do on the internet.
As far as Isaac goes, I've sunk a lot of hours into it because it's a nice 'brain off' kind of game. A big long checklist of things to do, no order to do them in. I've already completed a save on switch ages ago, and was going to try completing another file, when I realised I wasn't having fun at all. So I decided to just try and get a win streak with characters I actually enjoy playing instead.
In truth, I'm writing about it here so that I maybe stop doing it, because, as I said, it's all I've been doing for the past week. And there's lots of other games I want to play.

June 15th, 2025

A pattern has been forming as I listen to the rest of these albums. The first time I listen, I maybe don't like it. maybe I'm not paying too much attention (the first time I listened to The Now Now was on the way down Mt Richardson, so maybe that didn't help), or maybe I just don't appreciate it enough. But once I come back, it starts hitting. These two albuls have absolutely hit for me. Starting to think I'm more of a modern gorillaz fan than an old gorillaz fan. (fav tracks: Andromeda, Souk Eye, Hollywood, Strobelite)

Like, a couple weeks ago or something

There's never not enough time for a melancholic walk around your old home town, seeing places you used to vist that have since changed dramatically, perhaps paralelling some kind of loss of childhood memory or innocence. Or maybe it's just that they didn't happen to take particular care of this park specifically, and the reason it was all muddy and wet was because you visited in the winter. Who could say?

Also Song machine! Didn't have to second thoughts this one, liking it from the gecko. Fav track: Strange Timez, Chalk Tablet Towers

May 10th, 2025

I heard BIRDBRAIN (and by extension, any of Jamie's work) first because of a post by Punkitt on Tumblr talking about how much detail was put into giving the song 'ameturish' qualities (i.e. false starts, vocal strain, etx). This is extremely true, it adds so much emotion that you practically forget that it's sung by a vocaloid. I got hooked on the song, so naturally I went to listen to more of her work, and also fell in love with ROT FOR CLOUT and I Wish That I Could Fall. It's amazing stuff. Also I later learned that there's a deluxe version of Constant Companions coming out that has BIRDBRAIN on it! Awesome!. (BIRDBRAIN is so cool, the false starts get me every time...)

June 30th, 2025

did you leave your brain at home??? is this how you normally behave????

August 6th, 2025

Feels like it's been ages but it's only been a month, huh? That's weird. Anyways, here's what I've been doing lately.

I've picked up the show, Peacemaker! It was an easier sell for me to watch it now rather than when it came out since Superman was pretty good, and because I knew it was getting a second season. I didn't go in expecting to like it or get very attatched to it's cast, and I felt this way through the beginnings of the first episode, but it really won me over as it went further. I've been vestigially attatched to the marvel train for a while now, and I'm feeling like maybe now is the time to let go and shack up with the DCU instead.

Monster Train 2, while not related to peacemaker in any way, is still a very good game. Granted, I'm not very good at it, but it's great nonetheless. I will be sinking many hours into this as time goes on, I can tell (And they're gonna update it!).

September 09th, 2025