-
Lost Letters
·
·
details
Since 2024, I’ve rarely left the house without my Hobonichi Weeks planner in my bag, and I’ve never missed an entry, achieving the rare and elusive “planner peace” with this journaling form factor. There are more than enough notes pages for me to record TTRPG sessions and process my thoughts through journaling on the go when needed. Though I’ve debating getting a five-year journal in the past, I love the thrill of a new Weeks cover too much to give that up. As we make our way through August, the…
-
MMO Casual
·
·Joar
·
details
Mists of Pandaria got laughed at before anyone had played a minute of it. Kung fu pandas. A whole expansion about kung fu pandas, plus a pet-battle system a lot of people immediately wrote off as WoW doing Pokémon. I remember the reaction to the announcement, and it was not kind. It also turned out to be one of my favorite expansions in the whole run, and I've never really backed off that.
The joke fell apart the second you actually got to Pandaria. The place was gorgeous. The Jade Forest, the V…
-
PaseoBaggage - Blaugust 2026
·
·paseobaggage
·
details
Here's another song the radio introduced me to:
The Whitby Maid by The Outside Track
Pretty simple story behind this one. I used to work the night shift and I would try to tune into the local college radio on my way home. They played many songs I had not heard of. They didn't have anyone introducing the song choices so if you liked the song you had to try and look it up later by recalling the lyrics. This song eluded me for awhile until I could remember enough of the lyrics to find it. Here's so…
-
An Archaeopteryx
·
·anarchaeopteryx
·
details
A week of Blaugust, a honkaku mystery, some music for Bandcamp Friday, Traitors NZ, and more Zelda.
We are a week into Blaugust and I have managed a post a day so far. However next Monday I'm back to work for a full seven days so will probably not continue that pace. Probably another link post on Monday or Tuesday and a digest on Friday at least. I also need to spend some more time job hunting. I am only really employed at my current job until the end of September. Which isn't that far away. Try…
-
Kedara.eu by Ruben Verweij
·
·Ruben Verweij
·
details
Owning media again
This year, one of my aspirations is to rely less on the big streaming services for my entertainment. Why? Well, for one thing, if we give too much power to large corporations by getting overly attached to their services, that leads to monopolies, inequality and ultimately, democratic decline. How’s that for a positive opening?
Finding alternatives is easier said than done, because Tech Morality is Hard, and I would generalise that to “Corporate Morality is Hard”. Namely, keepi…
-
Bongo Twisty
·
·Bongo Twisty
·
details
Bandcamp Friday - 7th August 2026. I only just remembered to to get this one in the nick of time with a little over a hour to go on.
This is Violinbwoy’s take on a Belarusian traditional song. A beautiful interpretation by Laboratorium Pieśni remixed for sound system play by Violinbwoy in his laboratory. A tune gathering the ancient spirits - from that time to this time… play it loud and feel the vibrations!
I’m a big fan of dub steppas and modern takes on traditional cultural sounds. The Rootsm…
-
Alex's Review Corner
·
·Alex
·
details
Well, 9:30pm on the water to be exact but it started getting dark and even with my torch I didn’t want to risk going down a hole. I didn’t get any night time pictures, but I did get an okay sunset.
This was a little earlier, facing east, where I saw the clouds over the mountains that I thought might give way to some rain later in the night. Very dramatic and forboding.
As things got darker, some lights caught my eye on the eastern shore. With my naked eye I couldn’t see what they were for, but m…
-
PaseoBaggage - Blaugust 2026
·
·paseobaggage
·
details
I brainstormed many of my post ideas in advance and I realized there's many of them that have to do with the radio. Here's a little one from when I was a teen.
Talking in your Sleep by The Romantics
One year for Christmas I asked for a boombox. I got a sleek round white boombox with a built in CD player. It was one of the best gifts I ever received. I would just lounge around and listen to the radio if I had nothing else going on. I actually didn't surf the dial as I had a regular station I like…
-
gRegorLove.com
·
·
details
Continuing with the music challenge:
22: Cool Summer Night Drive + Windows Down + Stereo Turned Up = This Song
I immediately thought of Brandtson. A lot of our friends were fans and I have fond memories of driving near and far to see their shows around the Midwest.
Fun fact: they were big fans of Wes Anderson and titled a lot of songs after lines from his movies, including this one.
In case the band is reading this, when is the reunion show??
Brandtson, “Sic Transit Gloria (Glory Fades)”
-
Syl's Blog
·
·syls
·
details
I was looking at my Blaugust posts from last year, and I have one titled Hidden Gems on Bandcamp, wherein I shared some of my favorite lesser-known albums on the platform. Since there's another Bandcamp Friday coming up tomorrow, I thought it'd be a great time to revisit this idea and share some more albums with you. If you purchase any albums on Bandcamp tomorrow, 100% of the proceeds go directly to the artists.
Moons by Megan Carnes
I recommend all of Megan's music, but Moons is a particular f…
-
Taxodium
·
·
details
Album#46
High Violet
图1 《High Violet》專輯封面
专辑信息
专辑名称： High Violet
歌手： The National
年份： 2010-05-10
时长： 47:40
要說這張專輯什麼最吸引我，無疑是主唱 Matt Beringer 的嗓音，低沉而温暖，在專輯裡你能聴到他的中音和低音，都很好聴。 Matt Beringer 的個子很高大，有時他戴著眼鏡，看著像是一個教授。
The National 這支樂隊的組成也很有趣，由主唱 Matt Berninger、雙胞胎兄弟 Aaron Dessner（吉他、鋼琴、鍵盤）與 Bryce Dessner（吉他、鋼琴、鍵盤），以及 Scott Devendorf（貝斯）與 Bryan Devendorf（鼓手）兩兄弟組成，也是挺少見的。
High Violet 是我聴的第一張 The National 的専輯，整體聴起來給人一種忧郁且深沉的感覺。封面看著像是插在瓶中的散亂的花，花瓣由許多單詞組成。
専輯裡我喜歡的几首是： Terrible Love 、 Sorrow 、 Little Faith 、…
-
Endgame Viable
·
·Endgame Viable
·
details
Morning!
This is going to be an easy one, because it’s just links to other Blaugust posts I’ve been collecting.
I’m off to a brain MRI appointment this morning and then throwing away a mattress and sofa, which was supposed to be yesterday but plans changed, and then somehow squeezing in time for the day job.
Blaugust Reading
You may or may not be aware that it’s almost impossible to actually read the posts blasting by at a thousand miles an hour during Blaugust, let alone interact with them in a…
-
Troy Press
·
·troypress
·
details
This is an analysis of the Furbish of the first-generation Furby toys. I haven’t kept up with the language in the ensuing four generations (!) of toys.
Introduction
This web page is devoted to documenting and analyzing the Furbish language. Furbish and the Furby were invented by Dave Hampton, founder of Sounds Amazing (a games company) and a former Mattel programmer. Inspired by the success of Tamagotchis and Giga Pets, he decided to create a new kind of virtual pet, a completely interactive ani…
-
Biggus Bloggus
·
·taterinx
·
details
I'm not a Fantano, don't call me that. That actually wounds me, you know. Deeply. Say sorry. Say it harder. Softer. Hm... Actually, I don't like this. This thing between you and I-- This is awkward and weird. Damn. Leave me alone actually.
Slayyyter's latest album is my AOTY, which is wild because of how much heat there's been this year but a part of me kind of knew it. I put off listening to this album for so long because I knew it would consume me and it did. For all the synthesisers in the wo…
-
Indiecator
·
·MagiWasTaken
·
details
Hello, I'm Magi, and I blog sometimes. (lol)
-
Syl's Blog
·
·syls
·
details
We're only on the 5th day of Blaugust and I'm already struggling to think of something to write about. I went through the list of prompts and nothing is standing out there either. I think I'll just do a little freewriting (freewheeling?) today and see how it goes.
Let's start with some music I've been loving lately:
The album Come Closer by Tomora - a trip-hop collaboration between Aurora and Tom Rowlands of the Chemical Brothers. I always love seeing new trip-hop releases because it's a bit of…
-
PaseoBaggage - Blaugust 2026
·
·paseobaggage
·
details
You've heard a few stories from my youngest days (and there's plenty more I will share), but how about we jump ahead a little to my college days? In fact, I just heard this song on the radio at the end of July and it gave me the idea for the theme and inspiration for my participation in Blagust this year.
Relax by Frankie Goes to Hollywood
I have a Media Studies degree. I don't bring this up often because I've never really done anything with it. I've taken my share of video classes where we ofte…
-
Courtney Rosenthal
·
·Courtney Rosenthal
·
details
This is a Blaugust 2026 blog post.
I’m now in my third term of music theory. Back in the first term, I created a handy reference sheet for major and minor scales. I just added a new ref sheet for what’s called applied (or secondary) chords.
A Bit of Music Theory
(If you know basic music theory, go ahead and skip this part.)
First, listen to this music snippet:
Here is the music score for what you just heard:
If you enumerate the C major scale – C-D-E-F-G-A-B – you see that C is the first note. T…
-
nullish
·
·nullish
·
details
My childhood friend Eric lived in a yellow house at the end of a cul-de-sac. We spent our summers and after-school evenings playing video games (SNES, later N64), ping pong, and street hocky. We blasted the Mortal Kombat soundtrack on CD and played tackle football in the back yard. Young and indestructible, we never donned helmets or padding, but wore our bruises proudly.
Eric had a neighbor named Matt, a regular kid, but two years older than us. Matt was lanky and tall and, owing to the age dif…
-
blog//x2600.cc
·
·
details
Words on this, https://noisydeadlines.net/a-few-strong-opinions-about-ai
I agree, AI words, images and video are extremely unsettling (to me). It's everything but human created. In fact the most non-human thing anyTHING (in this case, a computer) can generate.
It's like a fever dream. Or some well-detailed hallucination. The words I've read/heard from AI (via people using AI to narrate YouTube videos) has “enough” human-like mannerisms and gestures, but that makes it that much more perverse. I d…
-
brennan.day
·
·
details
There are a handful of albums that I've listened to front-to-back over and over hundreds of times throughout my life. These records are not only a collection of songs, but carry a powerful throughline from start to finish.
Death Cab for Cutie's Transatlanticism, Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, The Mountain Goats' The Sunset Tree, Joni Mitchell's Blue, Frank Ocean's Blonde, and Bright Eyes' I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning. If you've pegged me for a Tumblr-era /mu/core Millennial…
-
PaseoBaggage - Blaugust 2026
·
·paseobaggage
·
details
It's time to go back to music class as I have another memory from the same music class (possibly from the same year).
The Ghost of John. This example is by Sharpe Music. Obviously I can't share the exact version I heard in class
I know little about this song. My limited research suggests this is an old folk song and it was commonplace in elementary school music classes. What I do know it that it's creepy as hell! This song scared me when I was a kid. I am haunted by the memory of this being sung…
-
Kedara.eu by Ruben Verweij
·
·Ruben Verweij
·
details
Cheerful fumbling
It’s a damp early morning, the house clearly recalls the past hot day better than the cooler night. I’m playing a four chord song on my piano: my voice leading is clunky, the rhythm is uneven, and I couldn’t be more pleased to spend five minutes like this, skill-taste gap be damned.
Even though I’ve played piano and other instruments in the past, it feels like starting over again. They say that to be an expert at anything, you need to practice for 10.000 hours. Well, I’ve only…
-
Matt's Blog
·
·
details
So, I’m taking part in Blaugust again. I’m not even going to try to do 30 this month. I’ll be happy with 5 or 10. But this is #1, so it’s a start.
The last time I wrote something, I talked about how I was considering going back to music subscription services simply because I missed their music discovery options. Self hosting was just not doing it for me in that regard. I really didn’t want to go back to paying for music, though. I have spent well over a year getting my own library up and running…
-
Emma Juettner's Blog
·
·
details
I like public transit and I like music, but I especially like music about public transit. In no particular order, here are some of my favorite transit tunes.
The Bus Is Late
If you're an avid audio drama listener, you may recognize this first one as the Weather from an early episode of Welcome to Night Vale. "The Bus Is Late" by Satellite High is actually just one of an entire EP of songs about the bus. Another favorite track of mine from the album is "A Girl Who Loves Buses Too." I, too, am loo…