Back to the homepage.
Back to the index.

Date: May 3rd, 2020.

Time of Writing: 11:26 PM.

Weather: I did not go out today, because my muscles were sore from the five mile walk yesterday, because I don't walk much. However, I can generally assume that it was nice out, based off of extrapolations from visual data acquired from windows and what yesterday was like.

Mental and Physical Health State: Limewire in real life. Digital detritus given physical wilt. A decrepit virtual space's raw decay in pageviews and attention mapped to necrosis in the rotting flesh of a fresh carcass. A deeper understanding.

Day Overview: Woke up around noon, thankfully not to the sound of my brother's alarm. Played some Animal Crossing to start the day but not too much, because I had some lecture content to watch. I used to use a lot more people's names in these blog posts, because each day had with it the random possibility that I would interact with somebody new. That has been lost, now. I could remark on who I've spoken to electronically in a textual capacity, but then I'd need to log all interactions of that nature. And that's impossible. I've spent a lot of time not doing much but listen to music.

On My Mind: What's on my mind today is my body. My haircut, specifically. I've spent a bit too long looking at myself in the mirror and discovered that if my hair flips to one side, I look absolutely disfigured. Flipped to the other side and I look strange still but not as mangled. My internal perceptions of my body are very different from other people's, it seems. They say they like it. I don't understand how, aside from, well, the me in my head is not the me that other people see, and can never be, just by simple factor. Humans can't understand each other, and yet they must.

Works Consumed:

• The Chronic by Dr. Dre: Before I say anything else I'll say that the production on this album is phenomenal. There's one really consistent instrumentation mixing trick that's employed to great effect; the high keyboard note whistling in solitude, a lack of stuff in the middle except for vocals, and a lot of low rhythm section grooves. This sound swallows people whole - not just the sound of the instrumentals, but also the sound of the rappers present. Each and every vocal performer here is gifted with incredible flow and sonorous vocal tones, meshing perfectly with the lush and funky production here. Sadly the lyrical content all around has not aged well, and in fact is generally the low point of the album. General fealty to specific eponymous subject matter aside, there isn't much I enjoy listening to in the lyrical department. 8/10 overall.
• Real Life by Magazine: My immersion into the world of post-punk (for research) officially begins with this album. I've listened to plenty from the subgenre before, don't get me wrong, but those explorations were usually on the surface level. It's time to dig a little deeper, little by little. In relation to post-punk, this album predates the idea by a bit, and sounds like it. The middle sags with archetypal punk tunes, and the beginning third of the album, while generally stunning, has holdovers from previous alternative subgenres of Rock music, specifically psychedelic rock keyboards. The last third is proper post-punk, an anxious, paranoid, jittery mess of songs, strung-out and vaguely damp, crumpling like paper to the touch. 8/10 as well.
• Jeopardy by The Sound: An album full of that last gross sentence of illustrative language. It's exceedingly good at it, but at times it feels derivative, good for padding out a post-punk mood, but not in adding additional sonic color to one's listening session. Tofu music. Thankfully I had it mixed with something good. 7/10 here.

Works In Progress:

• Kaguya Sama: Love is War Season Two animated by studio A-1 Pictures: Episode Four.
• Sing Yesterday for Me animated by studio Doga Kobo: Episode Five.

Works Produced: A few hundred early morning, none since, even when it has suddenly become prudent.

Other Thoughts: Thank you for reading my blog. I have a quick word about the current timeline for technical improvements to the website. This upcoming week is finals week, and, whether I'm actually going to be using the time for this purpose or not, I'd like to block off the entirety of the week through Friday for finals work. Then, on Saturday, I'll begin working on the blog. Priority goes based off of time since suggestion and personal assessment of difficulty. First, adjustments will be made to the May theme for readability's sake. Then, a page view counter will be applied to the front page. Finally, the entire site will be reformatted for mobile use. Thank you all for your patience, I know I've been slacking on this aspect of the site lately.