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latespringPlease imagine I have the braincells to make a pithy joke about july here! Busy month! I've tried to make time for friends among work and working on my thesis, but the results have been mixed. I keep telling myself I'm almost through. I'm almost through!!!
Thor: Love and Thunder
A little disappointed if I'm honest! I had pretty high expectations for a Taika movie, but this fell a little flat. It's just kind of meh as a movie, which was sad, if very Marvel. It feels like a movie that got extremely edited between the writing room and production, and not necessarily in a good way. Also needed more time in the middle section to breathe.
Watched this with my friend I took to eeaao though, so seeing it with him was a delight!
Persuasion
I'll be honest, I don't care how good this movie objectively is, I thought it was hilarious (partially because it's soooo Style) and I laughed a bunch while watching it.
(rewatch) Everything Everywhere All At Once
Rewatched this with a friend, partially because I needed him to see it, and partially because it got rereleased in theaters!!! I still really loved it! The blooper reel at the end was so cute!
Didn't finish reading anything this month, but I'm currently reading Never Let You Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, Portrait of a Thief by Grace Li (had to return it to the library but I have it on hold again)*, A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki, and Sellout by Dan Ozzi.
*For anyone reading Portrait of a Thief, does the prose read like Li has written fic before, or is that just me reading too much into it?
Nothing here!
I've been reading a lot of fic this month! Some highlights were definitely these two Star Trek fics:
Thy Soul, Alight In The Dark by Aerlalaith
You Have [1] New Message by torikabori
Also, new short story by Isabel Kim, which I thought was really fun! Deals with genre, specifically scifi, in a cool way. (If you notice the short stories I keep up with is mostly just whatever one writer puts out, it's because she hosts "Wow if True," a podcast about internet culture I like! So I keep updated that way lol. Also she wrote some excellent The Adventure Zone fic so like lmk if you want a link.)
Something I've been thinking about this month is making friends as an adult, so this podcast episode was pretty cool. I think the main things I took away from the ep aren't groundbreaking, but they're always nice to be reminded of: people want to make friend but Being An Adult Is Busy, don't be afraid to reach out, don't worry if people don't have time to make a new friend/be your friend it probably isn't personal, seek out places to find people with shared interests.
Listened to My Chemical Fancast up through episode 40ish, which got to the end of Conventional Weapons! I've been listening to the rest of their episodes sporadically--the 2019 Return Concert recap was a particular delight. I think I'm mostly done with the podcast for now, since I've listened to the sections I was really interested in--that is, the making and recording and history of the music they released pre-2022. Still might come back to the rest of the episodes they've done, especially the interviews, those have been very cool.
(In related MCR news, one more article for the road.)
I liked Sir Babygirl's album (2019 release) so I looked up some interviews she did! His style influences re: pop music with an edge, were fun to listen to!
This has been a month of very ambitious library pulls so I have a very promising stack of books I'd like to finish!
Also trying to finish the movies I've been trying to watch, but as always, I am pants at watching movies by myself.
Do not trust the eraser by Rosamond S. King
Tenant by Emily Skillings
Answer July by Emily Dickinson
How could I have known I would need to remember your laughter, by Lauren K. Alleyne
the way it ricocheted—a boomerang flung
from your throat, stilling the breathless air.
How you were luminous in it.
fire danger high today by Jaye Elizabeth Elijah
the tree that bears fruit is not withholding
despite the loss
In the Yellowstone by Harriet Monroe
I, New York by Lam Lai
from “Consequences of a Heavy Heart” by Jennifer Firestone
Because you have the brightest terror, like following a white feather into the street. You want it so badly. Would you call that desire? Would you call it love?
I Never Felt Comfortable in My Own Skin So I Made a New One by Xan Phillips
The Locust by Leonora Speyer
time travel by Mihee Kim
I was particularly fond of this one!
Cape Cod by George Santayana
“Cape Cod” first appeared in Santayana’s Sonnets and Other Verses (Stone & Kimball, 1894). As Santayana recounts in Persons and Places: The Middle Span (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1945), the poem originated in a fishing trip with friends to Cape Cod, during which he “never held a rod in [his] hand, and never meant to.”
I don't want to laugh at this dude but also, oh buddy. Poet on a fishing trip has an existential crisis.
SCROBBLES: 2,873 ▲
SCROBBLES PER DAY: 92 ▲
I think sometimes about a conversation I had with a classmate in high school, where we were talking about motivation re: schoolwork. I was even worse with school work and motivation then and asked her, semi-ironically, how she got the motivation to do things. She looked super blank, and said "uh, I listen to music?". We were really having two different conversations, but the point she made about music is fair. I listen to a Lot of skz in the morning to not fall asleep during my internship.
New music this month! Sir Babygirl's album (released in 2019) was a delight. I had my doubts about my monthly playlist at first, but it's developed into something so good. Especially check out St. Vincent's Bad Believer and Seeing Double's Leah on there.
Had a skz moment (became obsessed with 0325 several years after its release), as well as a Marina moment (finally listened to the new Electra Heart songs !!!). I've also been sorting skz songs by bpm to find the perfect jogging song by them, so that's changed my listening a little.
The Ateez album! Holy shit the Ateez album. My favorite release from them ever. Whatever they put into the distortions is magical.
A delight all around!
Artists:
Albums:
Songs:
Movies
Thor: Love and Thunder
A little disappointed if I'm honest! I had pretty high expectations for a Taika movie, but this fell a little flat. It's just kind of meh as a movie, which was sad, if very Marvel. It feels like a movie that got extremely edited between the writing room and production, and not necessarily in a good way. Also needed more time in the middle section to breathe.
Watched this with my friend I took to eeaao though, so seeing it with him was a delight!
Persuasion
I'll be honest, I don't care how good this movie objectively is, I thought it was hilarious (partially because it's soooo Style) and I laughed a bunch while watching it.
(rewatch) Everything Everywhere All At Once
Rewatched this with a friend, partially because I needed him to see it, and partially because it got rereleased in theaters!!! I still really loved it! The blooper reel at the end was so cute!
Books
Didn't finish reading anything this month, but I'm currently reading Never Let You Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, Portrait of a Thief by Grace Li (had to return it to the library but I have it on hold again)*, A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki, and Sellout by Dan Ozzi.
*For anyone reading Portrait of a Thief, does the prose read like Li has written fic before, or is that just me reading too much into it?
TV
Nothing here!
MISC
I've been reading a lot of fic this month! Some highlights were definitely these two Star Trek fics:
Thy Soul, Alight In The Dark by Aerlalaith
You Have [1] New Message by torikabori
Also, new short story by Isabel Kim, which I thought was really fun! Deals with genre, specifically scifi, in a cool way. (If you notice the short stories I keep up with is mostly just whatever one writer puts out, it's because she hosts "Wow if True," a podcast about internet culture I like! So I keep updated that way lol. Also she wrote some excellent The Adventure Zone fic so like lmk if you want a link.)
Something I've been thinking about this month is making friends as an adult, so this podcast episode was pretty cool. I think the main things I took away from the ep aren't groundbreaking, but they're always nice to be reminded of: people want to make friend but Being An Adult Is Busy, don't be afraid to reach out, don't worry if people don't have time to make a new friend/be your friend it probably isn't personal, seek out places to find people with shared interests.
Listened to My Chemical Fancast up through episode 40ish, which got to the end of Conventional Weapons! I've been listening to the rest of their episodes sporadically--the 2019 Return Concert recap was a particular delight. I think I'm mostly done with the podcast for now, since I've listened to the sections I was really interested in--that is, the making and recording and history of the music they released pre-2022. Still might come back to the rest of the episodes they've done, especially the interviews, those have been very cool.
(In related MCR news, one more article for the road.)
I liked Sir Babygirl's album (2019 release) so I looked up some interviews she did! His style influences re: pop music with an edge, were fun to listen to!
In Progress
This has been a month of very ambitious library pulls so I have a very promising stack of books I'd like to finish!
Also trying to finish the movies I've been trying to watch, but as always, I am pants at watching movies by myself.
Poetry
Do not trust the eraser by Rosamond S. King
Tenant by Emily Skillings
Answer July by Emily Dickinson
How could I have known I would need to remember your laughter, by Lauren K. Alleyne
the way it ricocheted—a boomerang flung
from your throat, stilling the breathless air.
How you were luminous in it.
fire danger high today by Jaye Elizabeth Elijah
the tree that bears fruit is not withholding
despite the loss
In the Yellowstone by Harriet Monroe
I, New York by Lam Lai
from “Consequences of a Heavy Heart” by Jennifer Firestone
Because you have the brightest terror, like following a white feather into the street. You want it so badly. Would you call that desire? Would you call it love?
I Never Felt Comfortable in My Own Skin So I Made a New One by Xan Phillips
The Locust by Leonora Speyer
time travel by Mihee Kim
I was particularly fond of this one!
Cape Cod by George Santayana
“Cape Cod” first appeared in Santayana’s Sonnets and Other Verses (Stone & Kimball, 1894). As Santayana recounts in Persons and Places: The Middle Span (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1945), the poem originated in a fishing trip with friends to Cape Cod, during which he “never held a rod in [his] hand, and never meant to.”
I don't want to laugh at this dude but also, oh buddy. Poet on a fishing trip has an existential crisis.
Music
SCROBBLES: 2,873 ▲
SCROBBLES PER DAY: 92 ▲
I think sometimes about a conversation I had with a classmate in high school, where we were talking about motivation re: schoolwork. I was even worse with school work and motivation then and asked her, semi-ironically, how she got the motivation to do things. She looked super blank, and said "uh, I listen to music?". We were really having two different conversations, but the point she made about music is fair. I listen to a Lot of skz in the morning to not fall asleep during my internship.
New music this month! Sir Babygirl's album (released in 2019) was a delight. I had my doubts about my monthly playlist at first, but it's developed into something so good. Especially check out St. Vincent's Bad Believer and Seeing Double's Leah on there.
Had a skz moment (became obsessed with 0325 several years after its release), as well as a Marina moment (finally listened to the new Electra Heart songs !!!). I've also been sorting skz songs by bpm to find the perfect jogging song by them, so that's changed my listening a little.
The Ateez album! Holy shit the Ateez album. My favorite release from them ever. Whatever they put into the distortions is magical.
A delight all around!
Artists:
- Stray Kids - 434
- My Chemical Romance - 313
- Vienna Teng - 93
- ATEEZ - 81
- Marina - 70
- Rina Sawayama - 67
- Mitski - 49
- Florence + the Machine - 47
- Gerard Way - 47
- Carly Rae Jepsen - 45
Albums:
- SKZ2020 by Stray Kids - 81
- Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge by My Chemical Romance - 79
- SKZ2021 by Stray Kids - 78
- The World EP.1 : Movement by ATEEZ - 70
- ODDINARY by Stray Kids - 69
- GO Live by Stray Kids - 61
- Electra Heart (Platinum Blonde Edition) by Marina - 56
- NOEASY by Stray Kids - 56
- Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys by My Chemical Romance - 48
- The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance - 43
Songs:
- 325 by Stray Kids - 33
- Surrender the Night by My Chemical Romance - 28
- Leah by Seeing Double - 27
- N/S by Stray Kids - 26
- Bad Believer by St. Vincent - 23
- VENOM by BVNDIT - 22
- More by Astro - 21
- Meteorite by BANKS - 21
- Cry by Carly Rae Jepsen - 20
- Haunted House by Sir Babygirl - 19