Got one of those modern instant cameras. It's neat! Here's the first photo I've taken with it. Looking forward to taking more. Also working on a bunch of new pages for this website where I share and talk about my little cassette tape collection.
🎮 Cruelty Squad
🎧 In the Earth Again
📖 Keep Going – Austin Kleon
Finished the Chucky series. Not perfect, but I had a great time. I legit thought "I can't believe they're doing this" almost every episode. Constant escalation, surprises, absurdity. Love the franchise so much. If anything else comes out and the regular crew is involved, I'm there.
Worked up a new SNVN track. Like every new song that I've come up with, it's my favorite one yet. It's mostly made up of a very simple riff that I normally would have discarded. But I kept pushing it around and ended up really liking it.
October activities.
Every now and then I see one of my fonts being used in the wild and it's always very exciting. I recently started an Are.na board to keep track of them. If you ever see anything I've made being used, please let me know so I can add!
I've been playing the Heretic + Hexen re-release and it's great! They added map markers, which essentially fixes Hexen. The updated soundtrack is also fantastic. Highly recommended!
Home from work on a Friday and have had a drink or two and am listening to The Mountain Goats alone in my house and I'm thinking they are one of the best bands of all time probably.
Public service announcement: Classics of Game is back in a big way. A real hot streak. Amazing stuff!
I feel a lil weird/guilty about not talking politics on this page. I don't really *want* to and I will not be getting in the habit of posting a take about everything. But there's a certain amount of grossness about avoiding the obviously inescapable conversation outright. So lemme just hit the two hottest topics real quick: Stop the genocide in Gaza. Trans rights.
Replayed Hitman: Blood Money recently (a classic). And also played through Hitman: Absolution for the first time. It's the black sheep of the franchise for good reason, but I kinda loved it.
Recently launched a new gimmick Tumblr account called DiscHeaven. Showcasing disc artwork. It's neat! Check it out!
Some living saint has shared their archive of the BBC Radio 1 Essentials Mix going as far back as 1993. I've been listening to it all day. I'm currently on this one from December 1999 and am having a great time. (Thanks to Jesse Hebert for giving me a heads up about this!)
Please go read this blog post from Jack Grimes about the current state of the internet.
Finished watching The Righteous Gemstones. Real good show. Absurd humor, sincere heart. Watch it!
Picked up the 33 1/3 book about The Moon and Antarctica by Modest Mouse. A top 5 favorite band, for sure, but I hadn't listened to them in a bit and it's fun to fall back into a comfortable rabbit hole. Cool book and book series, too! Definitely wanna read more of these.
Dracula Daily starts soon, which is something you should know about. It's such a fundamentally good idea. Excited to start getting that in my inbox and experiencing the story in "real time."
Oh hey, here's a previously unreleased Ashen Altar track, if you're into that sorta thing.
Just dropped some new music under the SNVN project. Check it out, if you wanna: https://snvn.bandcamp.com/
Thinking about the hit horror film Halloween Ends (2022).
Highly recommend this killer article from Elizabeth Goodspeed about why graphic designers are always joking about hating their jobs.
More tapes! Just got two of my favorite dungeon synth releases from Warlock Corpse and Ghoëst. Thanks to Out of Season.
Shoutout to Pod Mortem. Probably the best horror movie podcast. Consistently great. No ad breaks. Good people, good analysis.
What if I told you that I was pretty good at designing logos? Would you believe me or continue living a lie??
Working on stuff for the next SNVN release. This track is going to be called THR5H0LD. Needs some tweaks, but sheesh, I'm having a great time.
Hello again. I just released some new music under the name SNVN. This EP is called PHYTOLITH. It's short and pretty fun, imo. Check it out on Bandcamp!
I won't be participating in Famicase this year, which is a bummer. The deadline snuck up on me. Just wasn't thinking about it. BUT I will be back next year.
I am very late in doing this, but I wanted to publicly say: huge thanks to Einar Baldvin for letting me use his artwork for this music project. And huge thanks to Realm and Ritual for making it physical. And last but not least, huge thanks to those of you who bought tapes or made digital purchases. All of this has been a complete surprise and an absolute thrill. <3
It is 2° right now. Winter is horrible!! I can't take it... Someday we will move someplace warm.
They got alcoholic Arizona Iced Tea. Just thought you should know.
I've been kinda offline lately. Enjoying the holidays. A little late, but merry Christmas, and all that. Also, check out this great photo of Arcade I took a few days ago.
Dropping my first dungeon synth project! Tapes will be available this Friday from the Realm and Ritual Demo Series. But in the meantime, you can listen here.
Obligatory post-election update. Not much nice to say. It sucks that this country is so dumb and angry. Gonna try to focus on the things I can control, I guess. Hope you're doing ok.
I've been using Record Club and it's pretty neat. (It's kind of like GoodReads, but for music.) I now have three invites, so if you wanna try it out, shoot me an email!
Check out my little cassette tape collection! Recent acquisitions – from Love Garden Sounds in Lawrence – include Vespertine by Björk, the Bad Brains self-titled debut, and Jeff Rosenstock's Post. (I kinda regret getting Post instead of Hellmode. So it goes.)
Kinda want to make a plain text website and/or start using bearblog to write more. But I will probably end up just playing Elden Ring instead of doing either of these things.
Andrew Elmore dropped a new album earlier this month. Almost snuck by me, just finding out now. It's great. PSP beats! Do it!
I'm (what feels like) half way through the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC and it fuckin' rocks. Also listening to Bonfireside Chat as I go and it's such a wonderful way to experience a game. Highly recommended.
Had a nice three-day weekend and am feeling refreshed. Went to a pumpkin patch with some friends and then took a day trip to Lawrence, KS. Poked around downtown, visited the art museum, etc. Had a good time, but nothing feels better than coming home.
Got the new Chat Pile cassette and am listening to it for the first time while posting this update. So far, it's great. Haven't gotten into many new bands in a while, but I'm really liking these guys.
RIP Cohost.org. I had a nice time. I'm also trying to avoid over inflating that website's importance. But it shutting down feels like the end of something. A last gasp. Social media is essentially over, as far as I'm concerned. Personal sites, forums, and RSS feeds are the future. And that's not a bad way to go, I guess.
Puzzle update: we (finally) finished and all the pieces were present! I take back the disparaging comments I made earlier about our cats. They're good boys, afterall.
Listened to sad music all morning and have bummed myself out. (This is a rake I will continue to step on.) Anyway, I've said this before, but If I Didn't Have Your Love by Leonard Cohen is one of the best love songs ever written.
Pushed a small update to the Links page. There's now (the start of) an 88x31 button wall. Check it out and visit some cool websites.
Where the magic happens. (I strongly recommend grabbing a photo of the places you spend your time. It's nice to have something to look back on if things change.)
I am now prepared for the Cohost shutdown. Got a solid setup going here. Finished making a list of the people I want to keep an eye on. And I’m becoming a total RSS sicko. See you on the other side.
Seeing those giant skeletons around town. The greatest innovation in Halloween decor that's happened in my lifetime, by far.
Took this photo a couple nights ago. Feels like something I would've taken with my shitty phone in like 2008 (non-derogatory).
Puzzle progress report: The cats finally fucked with the puzzle. Found some pieces down the hall and one in the linen closet. It was bound to happen, I guess. This whole thing will probably end in frustration. So it goes.
We’ve been going to the gym lately, which has been great overall. (Who would have thought?) But the big thing they don’t tell you is how much time it takes. Work a full-time job and then also go to another place and exercise for like an hour? A total day melter.
Finally figured out the basics of setting up an RSS feed. Sharing my notes, in case it can be of help to anyone else. This also goes over the basics of rosting (RSS direct posting). Check it out.
I will 100% post exclusive cat pics here. This is an old one that I had on hand to test things out. So, uh, stay tuned.
Maybe TMI but I got a vasectomy earlier this month and I highly recommend it. Not a big deal and it guarantees a bright, childless future. Posting this because if I had known how easy it was earlier, I probably would have done it years ago.
I'm into cassette tapes again. The last time I regularly used a cassette player was probably in middle school. Having a very nice time with this lil guy from Turntable Labs. Blessed to not be an audiophile.
When all the good places to post go away, you have to create your own. This is a total ripoff (with permission) of Will Hackworth's website. I plan on posting little updates and occasional thoughts here. You can follow along via the Atom feed, if you'd like.
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