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Date: February 15th, 2020.

Time of Writing: 8:26 PM.

Weather: Cold. clear, windy.

Mood: Sorta lonely.

Day Overview: I went to bed last night at like three in the morning. I wasn't staying up for any particular reason, just sort of sitting around and not doing anything. When I woke up, it was long past the time for me to go out and canvas, so I decided I'd stay in. I still needed to get some breakfast, however, which I did. Ran into Jess and Dev at the dining hall, and we sat and ate together. They were already finished with their brunch, but they went and got a salad as seconds, probably for my sake. Afterwards I came back to my dorm and watched lectures that I missed for a while. Then I just sort of drifted off into the internet for a while.

On My Mind: We live in a Cyberpunk world. High tech, low life is embedded in most of the things we interact with on a daily basis. It's kind of freaky, actually. The aesthetics are the only real thing that's missing. Cyberpunk worlds are fundamentally not good to live in, of course. Ruled by ruthless megacorporations, Cyberpunk stories are often about raging against the machine that covers everything. But some people just see the aesthetics and go oooo, that's cool. and they want to be Cyberpunk. That's not the point! Cyberpunk is a bad future, and glorifying it is not the right message. I'll admit it looks cool sometimes, but it'd probably be a pretty miserable place to continue living in.

• Modal Soul by Nujabes: Not quite as strong as Metaphorical Music in my opinion, with far too heavy a reliance on the piano. The features are better, but the beats are worse, and I'm listening to Nujabes for the beats when I listen to Nujabes. It's still alright, just not as good as his other stuff. Unpopular opinion, I know. 6/10.
• Los Angeles by Flying Lotus: This one's pretty good, sort of crunchy beats happening, and the trademark FlyLo wonkiness. Maybe I've been on the internet for way too long today but I'm having trouble coming up with a lot to say about these albums, gosh. Not as wonky or as good as Cosmogramma but you can see the seeds of that planted here. 7/10.
• Felt Mountain by Goldfrapp: I liked this one a lot. Very smooth, but also sort of deceptively so. Like Portishead but if they put less of the effort into being trip-hoppy and more of it into grandiose arrangements, I guess. Very dreamy, and pleasant. Even the songs about being somewhat self-loathing are very nice to listen to and comforting. The electronic flairs give this a somewhat otherworldly sound. A lounge singer in a cyberpunk retraux future. 8/10.

• Minecraft developed by Mojang: Okay, I've been working on a vanilla hardcore world for a few weeks while I watch lectures (picture in picture), I have diamond stuff and I've been to the Nether but today I focussed on putting a wall around a village to make sure they didn't get fucked up by monsters.

Works Produced: Wrote a couple hundred words of stuff late last night and I plan on doing the same tonight. Yeahhhh.

Other Thoughts: Thank you for reading the blog. I promise I'll actually do something tomorrow.