Funny how I went from updating my blog near-daily to taking a month long hiatus. Isn't it funny how life works?
But anyways, I'm back since Jax & Roxy always bother me to update it and I figure why not.
Life since my birthday has been pretty mediocre, the days usually blend together so I don't remember much. Turning 16 has never been more MID. At the very least though, I've started hanging out and playing more games with my friends which has been a whole lot of fun. JackBox & Skribblio games are like the best thing ever, I swear. I've never laughed harder in my life.
ALTHOUGH. DOT DOT DOT. Yesterday I properly met a friend of Roxy's (Dirk) who I thought was pretty cool, and I think I was correct in that assessment. We all played Don't Starve Together along with Jax's friend Bobby and it was soooo much fun. I hope we all play again at some point. Afterwards Roxy & Dirk just started playing Overwatch which like. whatever. what else is new. But then John joined the call too and I figured I should try the game out again just because. Why not, y'know? But hoooooly shit I sucked so hard at it. Mainly cause I play with a trackpad and don't have a mouse since my sibling LOST ours playing Valorant. I only ever had previous experience playing video games on my laptop with like. Roblox and stuff. I'm still not very used to playing first-person shooters. Anyways, Roxy & John & Dave (he was also there, I guess.) joined my game to start spectating and I don't think I've ever been more embarrassed in my life.
I felt worthless, I felt ugly, I felt broke, I felt GAY. These words will continue to haunt me in my nightmares for years to come.
As you can see, I had a lot of fun. It was absolutely hilarious though, I gotta practice playing more often when I get a mouse for christmas. I also wanna get Marvel Rivals for pretty Obvious Reasons (I wanna play as Spider-Man) since the game seems pretty cool to me!!! But I'll have to free up some space on my computer, which likely means deleting some stuff. Rest in Peace TF2, you will be missed.
Anyways, I've also been drawing a lot more often, which is pretty nice. I'm currently juggling finishing the Roxy Page Project as I've dubbed it, along with this other art thing which has taken up a whole lot of my time despite turning out to be pretty bad. Which sucks!!! Sunk cost fallacy unfortunately did not save me while working on this.
If I have to work on this anymore I'll kill myself. But If I'm going to leave it in an unfinished state I at least want to do some patterns for Vriska's outfit since I adore how much work went into Kanaya's. Even if this sucks I'll still be proud of myself for the work that went into doing her lovely floral-themed outfit.
I also gotta start on my Secret Santa gift, YEESH!!! So many (three) art projects I need to work on and complete. The key to never not being busy is to impulsively start on multiple projects and ideas and then cycle between working on all of them at different intervals until you finally run out of motivation to keep working on them and start something else. I am very very intelligent.
Now then, for the thing only I care about; MUSIC!!! As of late I've been trying to get into new artists out of pure curiosity. For example, I tried out some Doechii because if my memory serves me right, which it always does, Roxy asked me if Doechii's song DENIAL IS A RIVER would fit her Roxy playlist. So I gave it a listen and I LOVED IT. It's the kind of rap you don't really hear anymore in my opinion. I don't know why people give her so much hate, her music rules!!! I also gave some Crystal Waters a listen as well after listening to my former favorite song of hers:
This one. It's an absolute banger that I was really obsessed with in 9th grade. But anywho I made a playlist to listen to some more of her tracks and I happen to really like them!!! My favorite song of hers has to be tied between 100% Pure Love and Listen For My Beep. But I think I prefer 100% Pure Love solely since its more upbeat. I just prefer upbeat music, y'know?
I've also been getting into listening to ATCQ more often since at some point I got tired of exclusively listening to Kanye like a basic bitch. I've spoken about this before but I don't like restricting myself to only listening to one artist always or just a few. I like to branch out sometimes and try new things! Although there are some genres which are an absolute 'You Could Not Pay Me Enough Money To Unironically Listen To' (i.e; Phonk and most scenecore. I despise 6arelyhuman & rebzyyx & kets4eki & zeija & all of that shit. It's so ass.) I at least like to give new music a chance. I love Tribe Called Quest, I'm hoping to get some of their albums on CD for Christmas after putting them in my wishlist. I wanna expand my CD collection so bad from the measly three disks I currently own. Midnight Marauders, The Low End Theory, The Anthology and People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm are must-have's for me, especially the last one. Their debut record is just amazing, I was thrown away when I listened to it for the first time. If I was an idiot who had a shit ton of cash to waste, then I'd really REALLY wanna get this one single (? kind of?) released in 1990. Bonita Applebum Meets Mr. Muhammad.
A Tribe Called Quest album covers are always so fucking great (I mean have you SEEN Midnight Marauders?) but this one has to be one of my favorite. I don't exactly know why I love this album cover so much, but I do. I think I enjoy it in a "so bad it's good" kind of way but my enjoyment of it isn't ironic in the slightest. I don't think its bad at all, I really really love this cover.
I've been seriously wanting to recreate it with davejade (how can I make this about homestuck...) or reference it in some way. I think about it a lot. (At the time of writing this) There's like three listings on Discogs for it that are ridiculously cheap for what I think is a kind of rare find. Although none on vinyl, all of them on cassette. Not that I mind, my Grandmama's CD player's also doubles as cassette players, and that wasn't something I figured out until I took a better look at it. I don't know why she doesn't just give them to me already! One man's trash is another man's treasure, and even if she wants to buy me a new CD player I still want it!! Oh well.
Just think about it, Bonita Applebum (even if it's a song I think is kind of overrated) and Mr. Muhammad together, I want it SO BAD. I gotta learn how to burn music onto CDs.
Anyways, that's about it. I'll come back to this thing when I feel like it. Bye Bye!
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