More 2025 music, feat. my friends
Some of my friends' favorite albums of 2025.
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Every clown has her day
Yesterday I went to my friend Nat's 26th birthday at a local karaoke bar. The theme was clowns and I was very excited having recently become clown-pilled for no real reason. I got a fun new dress for the occasion and bought some facepaint from Chicago institution, Fantasy Costumes, but due to time constraints and hubris I ended up going with simpler makeup (thanks to Saylor's help it turned out…
Some music I liked in 2025
Somehow it's 2026 already and I've been thinking a lot about my relationship to music. I've been off streaming services for years at this point and primarily buy music from Bandcamp to listen to via Plexamp, but still feel the endless propulsion of all music of all time being just a few clicks away. Lately, though, I've been getting into CD collecting and it's made me reconsider having all my…
Dollywood trip report
For reasons I will likely get into in a future post, I've recently become obsessed with roller coasters (and peripherally, to amusement parks in general). Coincidentally, I also had a trip lined up to visit Dollywood this July--a theme park in Tennessee primarily owned and loosely dedicated to country legend Dolly Parton--so I got a chance to ride a lot of new coasters and experience a…
Remembering how to write
Hello! To be entirely honest I forgot that I had set this blog up after getting all excited to customize the theme and add a domain name. But I was poked by my good friend and blog enthusiast Yaffle to participate in a daily blogging challenge through August so I'm going to give it a decent try. I have not written much of anything outside of the occasional Letterboxd review in probably four years.…