media log

🖋 May 10 2025

Cars (2006)
Yet another movie I suggested to Bab that we watch, because we both have free will. And also because I can't call myself an motorsports enthusiast if I haven't watched this yet.
Ok I didn't expect Lightning McQueen would be such a douchebag in the start lmfao but yay for character development!!! And yay for found family trope in the least expected setting!!

🖋 May 9 2025

Girlfriend - i-dle
This is so reminiscent of 2015 K-Pop and I’m living for it
I love the lyrics, the beats, everything!! I’ve had this on loop since morning
The Burning God - R. F. Kuang
What the fuck was that ending!!!!!! I'm pissed
I feel so empty, not like in an emotionally-moved type of empty. I’m just dgaf type of empty. What the fuck was that!!!!!! Really

🖋 May 7 2025

Peeing in the River
It's just a Broski Report btw kinda gross title tho lmfao
Today’s report wasn’t personally interesting to me nor did I learn something new but the 1D fanfics part was pretty funny LMAO

🖋 May 6 2025

NYT Games 1-year subscription
It was 75% off… Why not?
I feel so smart just guessing 5-letter words idc idc

🖋 May 5 2025

Mayhem - Lady Gaga (album)
Now why did I almost cried listening to this on the bus to work
Ok my Gaga album has always been Artpop but this has got to be her magnum opus. This feels like the product of all her eras through 15 years of her career.
Favorite tracks besides the title are Vanish Into You, Zombieboy and Shadow of a Man.

🖋 May 4 2025

The Love Hypothesis - Ali Hazelwood
It was... okay! I give it 3.5 stars. Definitely enjoyed the whole shebang but kinda cringed at certain parts (coughthesmutchapterscough).
The romance was good and I thrived on the banter. I enjoyed the PhD setting much more than I expected!
Might give her other books a shot...? Not sure yet.
I mostly came into the first book with expectations that it was adapted from KyloRen fanfic so I already have a picture in my head on how the main pairing would look like. It was an easy and comfy read for me (I sped thru it in 3 days)
Lady Gaga in Todo Mundo no Rio
Watched this randomly on a Sunday night and I’m just in awe of every second of her production. The audience were so responsive and geniunely having a good time with her, that it adds so much more passion to an already personal performance. For some reason, this was more enjoyable to watch compared to Coachella. I could feel Lady Gaga was having the time of her life, giving it her all, even through the screen.
I got so emotional up at Born This Way. It’s a meaningful song to me and seeing it being performed with so much freedom, joy, pride and passion actually moved me to tears!! T_T
What a setlist! My favorites have to be Poker Face, Born This Way and Vanish Into You. Ughhh, literal masterpieceeee

🖋 May 3 2025

HAIM Artist Radio
Shuffled their whole discography whilst walking back home from therapy.
The yearning?? The lyricism??? The production??? Cathartic.
Sling - Clairo (album)
Lulled me to sleep. I was randomly just listening to Flightless Bird, American Mouth radio when Partridge shuffled and I was caught off guard (/pos) with the soothing intro.
Proceeded to listen to the whole album intently.

🖋 April 23 2025

Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones
I read somewhere years ago saying book!Howl is way more dramatic than Ghibli!Howl and I GET IT NOW.
Very whimsical and I love the prose so much.
Besides Sophie's interactions with Howl, I most especially appreciated how protective she was with her sisters.
Of course I can't help but to compare the movie to it. I love how the movie wasn't a 1:1 adaptation but instead drew inspiration from it and gave it the sociopolitical Ghibli touch.

🖋 April 8 2025

Love Island and Michelangelo
Did I just lock in and listen to a 20 minute segment about Love Island without having any prior knowledge about the show while I was on the way to work? Yes.
Did I really lock in about her talk about being disconnected to one’s self on the way home? Yes. If the Supreme Leader tells me to Stand Up, I will Stand Up! It’s so funny that this woke me up way better than any self-help book I read about social media addiction.
Did I learn Michelangelo’s lore about his works? Yes. I even googled the Last Judgement but it was too small to look at it on my phone.

🖋 April 6 2025

Barbie Diaries (2006)
In which Bab and I commit to the bit of watching Barbie movies just because I randomly joked about it on a random evening when we didn’t know what to do
Absolute Cinema. Honestly I wasn’t really off put by the quality of the animations; in fact I was more amazed by Barbie’s hair physics and the lips movement of the characters are accurate. Did I mention this is actually mo-cap?! The clunkiness of the animation gave it so much charm I love it!!!
Literally Mean Girls but Cady Heron is Barbie *chef’s kiss*
999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors [lparchive]
A random tweet about someone having a tattoo of ‘truth’ and ‘gone’ and my neurons connected that it’s familiar. I googled it and yup it’s from 999. Somehow ended up re-reading the lparchive of it and GOD the true ending still fucks me up. I still remember vividly the night I finished it while 9years play in the background.
I love how some CGs of it still scares me lmfao such a good horror ambience

🖋 April 5 2025

Devil May Cry (2025)
It was good (Dante is such a huge dork!)
Then it was bad (Lady’s characterization is Butchered)
Then it got worse (Those fuckass bullets are suddenly way more powerful than devil trigger??)
Then it was good again (That 20 second Vergil cameo at the end saved the series)
Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy (demo)
So far so good! sRPG in my Kodaka/Uchikoshi game???? Sign Me The Fuck Up!

🖋 March 27 2025

Snoopy Presents: Welcome Home, Franklin (2024)
Love the animation and art style so much! The mixture of hand-painted backgrounds and 60fps animation was so satisfying to watch
And of course, the plot is lighthearted and meaningful

🖋 March 22 2025

Hercules (1997)
Watched with Bab! Had a lot of fun and inside jokes. Songs were actually bangers
Every Mythical Inaccuracy in Disney's Hercules
Immediately watched after the movie. Literally 25 minutes of “erm akshually”
Kind of condescending but that was the point of the video… LOL
10 Things Formula 1 Driver George Russell Can’t Live Without
Damn why he lowkey kinda fine

🖋 March 21 2025

So Cynical (Badum) - LESSERAFIM
Having this as the home screen bgm for the OW2 collab was a 11/10 decision
I want Mercy's skin sooo bad ;w;
Discussing the Lamp Dream
Moomin Full Episodes! 🏡 LIVE 24/7
Today I learned there's a 24/7 stream of moomin episodes ;w;
Americapox: The Missing Plague
In which I ask Bab "babe was the victorian era really that stinky"