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.

9/15/24

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.

9/15/24

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.

9/17/24

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 ear. 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.

9/5/24

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 gonna 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, mr. hurst, 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. but siddhartha is very easy to understand and 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.