9/28/24

he said "i pulled up in a big B, swerving like a hippie."... nuff said. dude this song is about doing drugs in a strip club. crazy how something so simple can be so good. glorious even. last month i seen a default ass white dude holding DS2 in amoeba. bruh was dressed like an H&M model. that shit was awesome.

9/17/24

last night i was watching these weird zoom videos that the strokes did back during lockdown and it made me revisit the album. i was listening to each song and it made me realize that it's probably one of my favorite albums of all time. other than "is this it", "the new abnormal" was one of the first strokes albums i've ever heard and i remember wanting to just listen to it over and over again. that was probably around this time, a year ago. i was obsessed with "ode to the mets". i have a very distinct memory of me bringing earbuds to this school event (senior banquet), just so i could listen to that song in particular. i think there's a picture of me sitting next to eli with them in.

but yeah. i bought the cd from the rasputin on telegraph, and would play it every morning on my drive to school. since i would only listen to it through the cd player, i never learned any of the song titles. i just knew them by track number. so whenever someone would ask me what my favorite song was, i couldn't really name any of them. i thought that that was kinda funny. this album is very reminiscent of that period of time in my life. very special. looking at the tracklist right now, i'll say that my favorites are ode to the mets and "not the same anymore". also "brooklyn bridge to chorus" was in the soundtrack to mlb the show 21 and i used to play that game every single day in freshman year. so that's another personal connection i guess.

9/15/24

music just been going so crazy today. i played "waking up" when i got out of my bed and deadass started dancing. i had to. my roomate isn't home right now btw. that would be crazy if i woke him up, just busting my shit at 9:00 in the morning. i kept going through the tracks as my day went on. shit was perfect. at the gym i was going dumb on the rowing machine listening to "try me". and on the bike ride back i was listening to "trampoline". mad inspirational. kero kero bonito makes awesome music. it's very fun to listen to. i heard "flamingo" for the first time in middle school. it was in a video of this animated bird dancing. i've been a fan ever since. "only acting", "cinema", and her verse on the ringtone remix is so hard. 100 gecs is so fire.

9/15/24

not really an original thought but i think this shit is soooo fuucking gooodddd. i threw it on like 30 min ago and been playing the album from the top. it's just banger after banger oh my goodness. summer soft (track 9) makes me wanna get up from my chair and reach my hands out to the heavens. shit is so good, it made me do jazz hands. my other favorite songs are ordinary pain (track 10) and sir duke (track 5). im so grateful that my dad has such good music taste because this album and all the other shit he plays is actually god-tier level. i really dont know if stevie wonder is blind or not. if he was blind how could he have caught that mic stand? i would say that somebody needs to throw a fake punch at his face and see if he flinches but that is so fucked up. i'll believe him. he's a fucking boss. random stevie lyrics will just pop into my head sometimes, and i'll just go through his discography which is just filled with beautiful beautful songs. some of my favorites songs from other albums are lately and ribbon in the sky. there's a lot of songs that i don't know which is cool because i still have the potential to get my mind blown and hear them for the first time.

9/5/24

imma keep it a buck, this is probably the best song ever made. if i were to guess what my #1 song on spotify is gonna be this year, i would say it'll be bad bitty. its just too catchy for me to not play it over and over again. and he just dropped that nle choppa remix too... omg. too good.

9/28/24

i like this movie a lot. its a very interesting story told over the span of only like 3 days. this was probably the whole point of the movie but watching it feels like experiencing normal life for the first time. something about going on the adventure that zach braff's character went on looks so fun. its the surreal/bizzare details in the story that almost make it feel more real. like i thought it was hilarious that largeman's friend bought a mansion off of inventing quiet velcro. i think the show, atlanta, is sort of like that, where there's moments that seem so weird but at the same time, it could happen in real life. the soundtrack is really really good. before i had watched the movie my friend played "don't panic" and it blew my mind. that was probably the reason why i decided to watch the movie. the scene it plays in is so perfect; as well as the scene with "in the waiting line". they did a really good job of matching the right music to fit the visuals. the other night i was thinking about the part where they're all hanging out in the pool. that shit looked so sweet. i need to be on that typa vibe. natalie portman is so hot. yo another thing: that lady singing "three times a lady" at the funeral sounded beautiful. i don't know why but i want a full cover of her singing that song. shit was awesome.

9/24/24

this movie is fucked up. it's almost like that movie "kids" if you mixed it with "fight club", then had bjork do the soundtrack. i always imagine how awesome it would be to grow up and live in japan, but after watching this movie it made me realize how fucked up it could be. im sure its not like this everywhere but still. my friend mentioned how disturbing it is when he told me about the movie and he was definetly right. most of these scenes make you wanna frown. i did NOT fuck with that scene where they made the bully swim in mud, at all bruh. shit was so unpleasant to look at. there is no smiling in this film at all. it's crazy that these characters are only in middle school too. when i was in middle school i was worried about playing fortnite and eating mcdonalds. shit was not that deep. if middle school me was in this story, i would probably get the shit kicked outta me. my dumbass lmaoooo. track #2 is my favorite off the soundtrack. i damn near get it. i can feel the ether when i hear that song. makes me wanna KILL EVERYONE!!! nah this pretty ass song made these kids wanna do all that bad shit. that's crazy.

9/5/24

the other day i was rewatching some banger ass anime movies (your name and a silent voice) and i was tryna find more. my brother, max, suggested 5 centimeters per second. i watched it, then told him that it was probably like the saddest movie i have ever seen. he was saying how most of the other shinkai films are science fiction and how the realism in 5cm makes the story so much more impactful and meaningful. i've only went through it once, so i think imma watch it again soon. if you click on the poster, it'll open a link to watch the movie.

9/5/24

in sophomore year, my english teacher had the class read siddhartha. since it was a book for the class, i didn't really care about it or read it at all. but in senior year, ori said the book was really good, so when i saw a copy being sold at the flea market, i decided to pick it up. im not finshed with it yet, but so far, i like reading it a lot. to be honest, the last time i read a book out of enjoyment was in 5th grade so im not the most thoughtful when it comes to books. siddhartha is a little hard to comprehend at first but it has a lot of good stuff you can take away from. again, my dumbass is not done with the book so i'll say that i reccomend the first 60ish pages i guess.

10/24/24

i just finished the book yesterday while i was riding the bus back from LA. i liked it a lot. the theme is very relevant to me in the point of life that im at right now, but i can see how its probably gonna be relevant to me in like thirty years too. i'll definetly have to revisit and reread it. when i was on the bus, a man sitting next to me noticed that i was reading a hermann hesse book and told me that i should read steppenwolf. so im probably gonna check that out soon. also, i don't know why, but reading about siddartha journey was kinda motivational. it made me wanna be hella productive. also the river where the ferrymen live sounded like a fire chill spot. like im imagining what it would be like to swim there on a hot day. must be a vibe and a half.

10/18/24

discovering zines kind of blew my mind because i had no idea that books could be writted and made this type of way. zines can literally be about anything and you can write in any type of style you want. you don't have to follow the rules of proper english if you don't want to. you can write how you normally would talk in real life. regular books aren't like that. personally i found it hard to connect with most books because i couldn't find any personality in the style that the authors would write them in. they all sounded robotic and bland to me. but that's probably because i have a walnut for a brain. burn collector is kinda what inspired me to make this webpage. al burian uses this zine to write about whatever was on his mind at the time. almost like his own blog in a way. like he could literally write about a ham sandwich if it made him feel some type of way. i believe there's a section in this volume where he reviews an old miles davis record and also an interview he did with a friend about mental health. it was literally just anything. i think the thing that struck me most was that he wrote about random things but there was still sincerity behind it. it's almost like listening to bob ross speak. there's something beautiful about turning something from normal life and giving it meaning and compassion. shit is really so simple but there's something so nuanced about it. and everything is DIY. he puts little hand drawn comics in between sections and i think he draws the cover too. his illustrations are so cool looking. overall big inspiration for this webpage.

10/17/24

yo that was cool asf. i love this song. i've never seen this movie though. super speed would be so fun. professor x is the coolest person to share my name.

10/17/24

man this is such a good one. tyler the creator is a fucking god bro. i could go on and on about the importance of that man but i don't really wanna dive that deep into it right now. this video was made so well. i love that illegal civ produced the thing because the graphics used in skate videos are so cool to me. like the one where they used ketchup to spell out the song title. that's so fire. in the video i made with ben, we spelt out the credits using cheerios, then wiped it away and put it in reverse. i kinda had the cherry bomb video in mind when we were doing that. that and the napolean dynamite credits. so cool. watching this documentary is fucking insane because they got so much footage of so many cool moments. like it's clips with pharrell, kanye, lil wayne, but its also toro y moi, kali uchis, hans zimmer. just shows you how insane this album is. it's a clip in there where tyler sits on the curb and explains the lyrics to "run" and i thought that shit was so interesting. this shit really shows off the whole process of making the album and it's just so inspiring. mad impressive as well. like tyler really makes the beats, writes the lyrics, does the videos. it's fucking insane. he's so good at executing his ideas and working with his team. it's really really impressive. everytime i watch this video it makes me wanna go out and do some productive shit. there's so much that you can take from this man it's fucking insane. ok im not gonna lie, i don't know if it's in this video or not, but there's a clip of tyler talking about success and greatness and he says like everyone has their own definition of greatness. for some people it's getting their paycheck or buying a new car. but his version of greatness is like eating a good ass cookie or looking at a cool view. it might be in a nardwuar interview or something i've watched all his shit i'm starting to mix them up. i definetly fucked up the quote but that shit really meant a lot to me when i first watched it. greatness and fufillment is really out there. it's anywhere you want to look. you gotta listen to your heart. im doing a horrible job at explaining this shit but i just wanted to write about how the shit he says is really important to me. watching all his shit on youtube actually changed my whole life damn near. i didn't watch the cleveland show, i sat my white ass down and listened. tyler has a new album coming out at the end of the month and im mad excited. the snippet he put out on his instagram sounds really good. "p said i can do it too, and boy did i believe em" that shit gives me chills bruh. daniel caesar is also on the song which is sooo lit. AND kanye posted some new shit on his instagram too. that shit sounds like heaven. deadass what it sounds like when you're ascending to the sky. "its been a looong time cominnngggg." man i am hyped for all this shit. we up. we eating.

10/15/24

yall gotta check this guy out. joe is hungry. probably one of the coolest youtubers on the website. the amount of love this man puts into his videos is astonishing. i feel like all the elderly youtubers upload great videos. like have yall seen the old men that post guitar covers? those are so good. shoutout frank watkinson. but yea. joe is hungry. yall just gotta watch one of his videos man. he's actually created something original within the food reviewing genre on youtube. he does these things called sneak-a-doodle bites where he'll eat the food in the parking lot while its still fresh but doesn't include the clips until after his review at home. he likes to make sure his reviews are the fairest they can be, which is something that i respect heavily. he also likes to spin the food on a tray, creating some bad ass clips of the fast food items. the editing in joe's videos are phenominal. the use of slo-mo and transitions make the video so fun. the production over all is amazing. i think he uses three different cameras for three different angles and he makes sure to turn to each one. oh man i love it. i think his production company is called fuzzy cat productions, named after his fuzzy cats. he likes to include videos of them in the intro which is awesome. its clear to see that joe actually cares about his youtube videos and is passionate about his content. he is so lit. like he cares bro. he's so genuine.