2 years later... recent music/books/movies/games

haven't used spacehey in AGES but the usual site i like to use for journaling n whatnot (multiverse) has been down a while so i return... different format but i like talking about myself and the things i like either way

music:

- he lied about death (stars)

song about george w bush goes HARDDD... i like the soft tone of the vocalist, but the guitar solo is also fun. haven't listened to anything else by this band but maybe i should.

- drugs with friends (car seat headrest)

trying to listen to more than the same three car seat headrest songs recently so i've been listening through their other albums. a lot of it gets boring pretty fast, but i like this one a lot. other recent csh favorites include famous prophets (stars) and cosmic hero.

- symphony no. 9 in e minor (dvorak)

my favvvv symphony ever... no one does it like dvorak. not to get old and crabby bc i like a lot of modern music but nothing goes harder for lying on the floor and imagining oc scenarios than classical music despite it being a very underrated genre for such pastimes! (maybe i just miss listening to my sisters play violin/cello now that i'm at college)

- paranoid android (radiohead)

been listening to ok computer a lot recently and i loooove this song in particular (exit music for a film and man of war are also up there--especially the marias' cover of exit music). from intro to outro it's a banger... when i am king you will be first again the wall!

books:

- prisoner's hope (david feintuch)

rereading the seafort saga and it destroys me as it always does. prisoner's hope (book 3) is probably the book i think about the least (minus the vax holser parts), but it's actually really good and sets up my favorite dynamic of the series. if any part of "homoerotic christian navy scifi" sounds appealing, please please please read this series so it's not just me and my one friend from brazil and the internet archives of the japanese fans from the early 2000s.

- god and my father (clarence day)

book i got from a church basement sale bc i thought it might let me make some seafort comparisons (it did), but also interesting in its own right. the book and narrator seem to disagree with the father's view of religion, but the way they handled it just seemed kinda silly to me.

- speaker for the dead (orson scott card)

i know card sucks as a guy but for a homophobe (and assumedly a transphobe too? haven't seen anything specifically about this but it would be out of line for him to not be one) he keeps writing transgender characters and homoerotical relationships... everytime i read one of his books i promise that it'll be the last and then three months later i find myself reading another one. i like this one less than ender's game (or ender's shadow, my GOAT) but it was still good. not going to pretend i won't read xenocide next... over the summer i read his homophobic hamlet fanfiction too but it backfired terribly on both our accounts.

- death by melancholy (walter sullivan)

collection of essays about modern southern fiction. i hadn't read any of the books he was talking about (i've read a lot of faulkner's early stuff, but all the faulkner he talked about was his later stuff), but it was engaging and now i have a bunch more books to read. he does declare that james joyce sold his soul to the devil in one of his essays though, which i thought was funny but perhaps might put others off.

movies:

- firebird (2021)

cold war era movie set in the soviet union about two soldiers... i saved this movie months ago and didn't reread the bio so in the beginning i thought one of the characters was a spy because he was acting strange but it turns out he was just gay! i've seen too many movies about gay men in the mid 20th century recently but it wasn't bad

- i saw the tv glow (2024)

when this first came out i remember seeing several people i follow elsewhere talking about it, but i didn't have any desire to watch it myself until a friend recommended it to me. i watched it at the tail-end of a week of really weird movies so i felt like it didn't make much of an impact on me until a week later i found myself setting up an appointment to talk about going on hrt with the university health clinic (which went well! yay!)

- rocky horror picture show (1975)

my dorm does an annual shadow cast of rocky, so i got to see it for the first time on friday night. it was great, except i got 0% of the plot because i couldn't hear the movie most of the time and could only kind of see the actors. i will have to rewatch just the movie on my own at some point, but i liked it from what i understood!

games:

- zelle (2019)

jrpg where you play as a six year old getting sent to hell (?!?). starts out as a point and click horror game but develops into an increasingly interesting story. would recommend!

- mouthwash (2024)

i kept seeing references to this so i played it but now i understand the references and would rather go back to ignorance. i liked the game a lot, although when i finished i looked up the one plot point i was still a little confused about and then realized i had misunderstood a decent chunk of stuff. oh well! i love a good workplace horror, especially if it gets a good old sci fi dressing.

- freelancer (2003)

speaking of scifi, i started playing this game as an attempt to "study" for my astro class. i've been stuck on the same mission for three weeks now but it's fun to fly around and shoot things in space and will probably be more fun if i can ever continue the story.

i've been working hard on several illustrations for a legend of the galactic heroes big bang. one of the other artists dropped out so i'm illustrating two fics, but i like both of them a lot so it's cool. didn't draw a bunch during the first month and a half of university but i'm locked in now (drawing a lot of seafort fanart). classes are going well and i only have two prelims left, but i can't wait for thanksgiving break... i wanna go home... (home is 20 minutes away and i still go back for sunday dinner every week but still).

pax!