thoughts
dec ‘25
woke up on the wrong foot which happens pretty often but successfully tanking it. decided to finally freshen up my itunes library because it's been a big while, so i downloaded 20 albums i've been meaning to listen to. that should help!
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american coffee by jenny hval is a perfect song. i don’t understand why it’s so good. it beats the shit out of me every time i listen to it. it’s so far beyond everything i’ve ever imagined. i have to say something about it so here i am.
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another night of taking the axe to my circadian rhythm, but i wrote vocals for a new kids song and made a demo— definitely worth it. the new kids song is called Boat.
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i have been generally unsuccessful at going to bed at a reasonable hour, but i also drew this new guy so worth it? i've not a name for him yet, what do you think it should be?
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i kept hearing strange sounds in my place and struggled to figure out their provenance while trying to teach my lessons without getting distracted. eventually i went down to the basement and sure enough i saw a bird trapped down there. it kept trying to leave out the front window, which does not open. i tried scaring it into going to the back of the basement, but it would hide in the ceiling and cease to move. i decided to go up to my place and stomp a lot directly above where it was hanging out, and this made the bird finally move towards the back where i already had the door open. after a little encouragement lad bolted right out the door. the bird is now free, phew!
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realized last night that Shigesato Itoi, the creator of Earthbound (Mother 2, in its original japanese release) is also the founder of hobonichi techo, a stationary company that specializes in what they call life books. these are essentially yearly planners/journals/whatever that you get alongside a journal cover and are supposed to write on daily. i've gotten into the habit of keeping a small notebook with me at all times this past year, and the idea of keeping one of these life book seems really attractive. here are some facts:
- Earthbound is probably my favorite thing ever made, which compels me to support whatever its creator does
- they have a really beautiful leather cover for the book featuring debossed pixel art of Ness on his bike and i am obsessed with it
- i like where my notebook-keeping habit has left me, and i would not mind leaning into it a bit more
i will contemplate these facts for a couple of days before deciding whether i actually will partake, mainly because the cover i liked the most happens to be much more expensive than the rest of them (why am i like this?). perhaps i deserve a treat? we'll see.
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some ray of inspiration must have hit me, because the piracy album is finally starting to sound like what i imagined when i first started mixing it. some comments from my brother put me in the right path in the first place, but the past two nights i've made more progress with it than i think i ever have. thankful to finally see the horizon. that being said it is important that i stop staying up so late because light has turned very scarce.
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i don’t think i had properly experienced “stars of track and field” until after many years of loving it i finally learned how to play it. singing it for myself while playing the piano put me in a timeless state of float at about 3am last night, and it held me tight once i finally got to sleep. i always avoid playing music by myself, but the snow is playing tricks with me.
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first day officially using flounder and i feel stimulated enough to make a little thought log. i actually did like twitter a lot back before all that jazz.