december 2023
interstellar soundtrack
12/07 [music] hans zimmer
this album makes me incredibly emotional.
november 2023
post
11/21 [music] bjork
i liked possibly maybe
the apothecary diaries
11/13 [manga] [dnf] natsu hyuga
i couldn't really understand the appeal, the stories were way too convuluted for me.
Ballade No. 1
11 [music] Frederic Chopin
still learning how to play
nights of cabiria
11/03 [movie] federico fellini
"buona sera"
october 2023
overwatch 2
10 [video game] blizzard
this game is so good, i'm not even kidding. i love brigitte.
Alive
10 [music] siinamota
i listened to this album a lot, i was very moved
the way of kings
10/01 [book] brandon sanderson
"too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit.
if we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. books can store information better than we can--what we we do that books cannot is interpret.
so if one is not going to draw conclusions, then one might as well just leave the information in the texts."
september 2023
one piece
09 [manga] eiichiro oda
read through + caught up with the manga
speaking in tongues
09/25 [music] talking heads
i'm just an animal, looking for an home...
bungou stray dogs season 5
09/21 [anime] studio bones
awful.
the vast of night
09/17 [movie] andrew patterson
fantastic-- made me wish i lived in a desert town
steins;gate
09/16 [anime] white fox
i'm hate to say it, but they were right-- you do need to see this
night is short, walk on girl
09/16 [movie] masaaki yuasa
my favorite movie of all time
a history of western philosophy
09/14 [book] [still reading] bertrand russell
"He[Pythagoras] founded a religon, of which the main tenets were the transmigration of souls and the sinfulness of eating beans"
pulp fiction
09/04 [movie] quentin tarantino
6th or 7th rewatch, showing it for the first time to my good friend Edward. i actually love this movie to pieces.
one piece
09/01 [live action] [dnf] eiichiro oda
watched with alison-- im afraid i am too attached to the source material to fully enjoy this.
august 2023
one piece
08 [anime] eiichiro oda
averaged about 20 episodes a day.
hatsune miku: project sekai
08 [game] sega
my name is emu otori, emu means... smile!
hades (switch)
08 [game] supergiant games
artemis boons W
judgment at nuremberg
08/31 [movie] stanley kramer
mixed feelings.
genshin impact-- fontaine archon quest
08/15 [game] hoyoverse
got wanderer c1 at 0 pity. yup.
diary of a void
08/6 [book] emi yagi
"maybe that's making a family is all about: creating an environment in which people make space for one another - maybe without even trying, just naturally, to make sure that nobody's forgotten"
wind/pinball: two novels
08/5 [book] haruki murakami
"anyway, i just love stories about faraway towns. i stash some of them away in my mind, like a bear preparing for hibernation."
real life
08/3 [book] brandon tyler
"there comes a time when you have to stop being who you were, when you have to let the past stay where it is, frozen and impossible."
july 2023
medea/hippolytus/alcetis
07/23 [plays] euripides
"better a humble heart, a lowly life. untouched by greatness let me live - and live. not too little, not too much: there safety lies"
mythologies
07/22 [book] roland barthes
"myth does not deny thing, on the contrary, its function is to talk about them; simply, it purifies them"
oppenheimer
07/21 [movie] christopher nolan
patently created by a British person
les miserables
07/20 [live musical] san francisco
seen with my good friend edward; "to love another person is to see the face of god"
the wind-up bird chronicle
07/16 [book] haruki marukami
"when you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want"
ikiru
07/16 [movie] akira kurosawa
mixed feelings.
if cats disappeared from the world
07/15 [book] genki kawamura
"i must have a whole collection of small injuries, tucked away somewhere in the recesses of my memory. i suppose those are what some people call regrets"
the idiot
07/15 [book] fyodor dostoevsky
"i am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer"
discipline and punish
07/14 [book] michel foucault
enraptured-- i only wish that i had read this in a class, and not alone
berlin stories
07/12 [book] robert walsh
"every foolishness here is ennobled and sanctified by the obvious difficulty of life"
on a winter's night, a traveler
07/09 [book] italo calvino
"only the ability to read by a given individual proves that what is written shares in the power of writing, a power based on
something that goes beyond the individual"
spqr: a history of ancient rome
07/03 [book] [dnf] mary beard
"... over centuries of retelling and then rewriting the story, they (Romans) themselves had constructed and reconstructed the founding
figure of Romulus as a powerful symbol of their preferences, debates, ideologies, and anxieties "
meditations
07/02 [book] marcus aurelius
"forget your thirst for books; so that when your end comes you may not murmur,
but meet it with a good grace and with unfeigned gratitude in your heart to the gods "
june 2023
asteroid city
06/29 [movie] wes anderson
"don't try to understand it. just keep telling the story. "
qiang jin jiu (将进酒)
[book] [dnf] tang jiu qin
got halfway through, couldn't get into it
love in the time of cholera
[book] gabriel garcia marquez
i loved this so so so much. i think all the haters are wrong. we usually think of love-- and the subsequent love stories-- as the thing
between two people. but love also alters the individual, one of the fundamental forces of human nature, shaping who you, without your object of desire, are.
i cannot recommend this enough.
honkai star rail
[game] hoyoverse
currently AR50. intensely addicted. actual good writing.
the devil is a part-timer
[anime] [dnf]
still watching, it's pretty fun, but nothing special
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[music] ichiko aoba
all you have to know is that i listen to this every week
notes from the underground
[book] fyodor dostoevsky
"I have never in my life ever been able to imagine any other sort of love, and have nowadays
come to the point of sometimes thinking that love really consists in the right-- freely given by the beloved object-- to be
tyrannized over. Even in my underground dreams I did not imagine love in any other form except as a struggle" (111)
the golden city of the scorching sun
[music] kevin penkin
i say this about everything, but this actually is my favorite album of all time. its genuinely magical, something that stands on
its own without the anime but also a crucial part of made in abyss' unique sense of otherworld
vct masters tokyo 2023
[esports] valorant
the meta is boring right now
nyt crossword
[puzzles] new york times
recent ones have been fun but i really am begging them to stop with the baseball clues
sandalwood death
[book] mo yan
incredible, incredible, incredible. ive never read anything like it. translation was sublime.
the passion accroding to g.h
[book] clarice lispector
"the mystery of human destiny is that we are inevitable, but we have the freedom to carry out
or not our inevitability: it depends on us to carry out our inevitable destiny" (129).
kafka on the shore
[book] haruki murakami
this is one of my favorite books and it changed my life in high school. reading it now, i dont think i
terribly needed it as much, but i loved it again nonetheless.
dororo
[anime] mappa
oh man. its really good. im not exactly sure what it is-- it definitely isn't perfect, but
something even better than that. it has done something for my soul.
no longer human
[book] osamu dazai
i did not enjoy this.
brothers karamazov
[book] fyodor dostoevsky
i will write later about how much i loved this book because it will take too long
kimetsu no yaiba
[anime] mappa
season 1 > swordsmith village > mugen train > entertainment district
5-star
[music] stray kids
i liked it a lot but its not really my /taste/ if you know what i mean.