6/16/25 - my adventure in ditching spotify continues

so the united states is on fire now. anyway

i am now fully equipped with a bandcamp account, cheap ass mp3 player and an external dvd drive. picked up a violent femmes compilation cd cause that's all the store FUCKING HAD and an orgy album. vapor transmission specifically. one of my friends who happens to have the exact same music taste as me is into them so i picked a cd up to try. turns out it's awesome. very salty they somehow had 0 modest mouse though wtf

this is definitely the secret sauce to enjoying music. there's something very special about browsing a very poor CD section and recognizing a band your friend happens to like and giving it a chance. vast improvement to spotify, even though getting my library of music is going to be a hassle. spotify wasn't even that bad for me to begin with because i adblocked everything on it. (pro tip: use firefox ublock on spotify's web app.)((pro-er tip. dont use spotify)) it's just soulless

i've also been visiting this tiny little concert venue a lot. i went just to see sarah and the safe word live, but i accidentally changed my brain chemistry there. turns out it's a community of like. actual leftist queers and punks. palestine flag pins and stickers everywhere. fucking insane experience being next to these people in real life after being used to the horrors of Online. will be going again to see sarah rose returning on july 2nd with my bestie i cant waittttt

anyway i think it's been really fulfilling. i can't stand spotify as a company and it feels good to find the counterculture railing against it--not for aesthetics or a love for consumerism, but because they genuinely love music and the artists who make it

5/26/25

mp3 player acquired... it is ipod shaped and the size of my middle finger. very beautiful. very powerful. i also acquired some fancy ass headphones which is nice because almost all the headphones i have are terrible. i have an Epic Gamer Headset that uses a usb thing for wireless connection so it does not work with anything but my pc. tragic. downloaded winamp too and discovered i can connect my mp3 player to my puter and it'll just. use all the files on it like normal. which is probably the greatest thing that has ever happened to me. this is so joyous and joyful how on earth did tech get to the point it's at now. was that really the peak of technology. is all that's left forced hypetrains for scammy products that don't do anything. my beloved daughter headphone jack was brutally slaughtered at the altar to make way for shitass bluetooth connections so they can sell shitass overpriced earbuds and save money on phone production. bluetooth is a solution to a problem apple invented

look how beautiful winamp is. i downloaded hornet disaster and the book of broken glass from youtube uploads but i'll actually buy them off bandcamp next chance i get. i had to manually fill in the metadata for the book of broken glass it was really sad. the band name was changed to the record label and it annoyed me badly

5/22/25

how on earth. did i forget to finish the last one. oh well. you got the point. dani got me to make a spacehey which is cool. i'm just realizing i don't know how to blog. um. anyone fw scarlet hollow. peak video game i've been dreaming about it all week it's kind of concerning actually. it's developed by the same devs who made slay the princess which is ermmmm pretty underground... i don't know if you've ever heard of it....... im just really cool and know all the obscure releases.......... anyway scarlet hollow's made me very interested in peeping stp eventually. will probably rant about how good slay the princess is tomorrow we'll see

5/21/25

huzzah. first post. Created. been working on this website parallel play style with jack pathologic. very joyous and joyful.

it's late atm and tomorrow is my birth i will be Seventeen kinda crazy. mostly cause my younger peers are literally getting fucking. dual scholarships to a community college in like 10th grade and im