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'`°*•☆ nov 6 9:30pm: stupidly quiet life looking forward to winter ⇄ looking forward to summer will try to get around to stitching together my rift xl footage sometime soon oct 23 10pm: https://gabriel.reisen/webexp/text.html cc @forever i was browsing yr site and went straight into playing with this lil thing and it took me a minute to register and promptly recognize the sample text lmaoooooo (well. semi-promptly, i have barely listened to drain story 💀) sep 21 9pm: it's all noise!!!! trying to cut out a lot of the noise. including from myself, lowkey sep 12 11pm: got new boots today, ready for the autumn and winter now, and have now all i need and more. investment really. they're red. with wool lining. and inbuilt ice cleats! rip 140€ total (ft careproduct stuff for suede/nubuck for some 14€) but committed to taking proper care of these for once, unlike prior pairs. hopefully gonna last me several winters (tho i had a pair that lasted me like 5 years even without proper care lmao but they also werent suede) aug 24 7pm: sometimes at work i feel mentally really absent. could b explained as me leaving part of myself home (or wherever actual home is for me), maybe for the better? think i'll go have a little ride, after some food. not hungry enough for full-blown dinner, will snack something. aug 1 3pm: subjected the contents of my ol' mp3 player to some winds of refreshment, maybe. and now the list reflects the stuff in the order they're on the player in haha jul 27 2am: at best friend's (parents') place again for a nite. got very rained on on our way back from a quick grocery run and i had no spare sets of clothing w me haha so ive been wearin some random shirt n pants from hereabouts. plenty foodmaking jul 13 12:30am: been going in on writing lists on here as of late :-D & 10:30pm: and once again lightheartedly seething over the paper crane i gave to oli xl in march '22 directly having got to touch a cd copy of oli's debut full-length album (as per the pic he sent me of the crane then), cd-s of which never did officially drop. SO CLOSE YET SO FAR!!! jul 1 9pm: i went on a really long nighttime walk the other night (wee hours of 28th, some 12:30am to 4:00am), still thinking of the 2:30am hot dog and peppermint hot chocolate i got from the 24h gas station at the edge of town. maybe ive been in this really prune-y/subtractive mood with mostly my online existence cos of some part of me being tired from being stagnant in some areas of my life? (mostly really the living w my parents, but for the sake of my senior cat and this config being best for her people-availability-wise i'll truck on til she won't, might be a longer while yet) jun 30 2am: 2-week workbreak... i got a floor stand fan the other day. it has sleeptimer and a remote, convenient. will see how to be during the break, gonna have to put in some effort for it to be fulfilling and not entirely nothingness... ive been listening a lot toooo... some shit i shouldn't even fucking Have actually but also been going thru my sp*tify liked songs, which have mostly accumulated thru collab playlists of a server im in. taking stock, pruning, pruning. i've gone from i think 1.4k? down to 500-odd right now, with approx 400 songs to listen thru more thoroughly maybe... i did a similar thing in sept 2021 except i listened thru each and every one of the then 1.2k-odd songs, as opposed to much more of skimming these days, life's too short and overwhelming and i'm far too artist/album-oriented for shuffling shit and im fine having no music on if theres no sensory bullshit to escape from. (on the other hand i also have a backlog playlist on there which also has a whole load of shit, ~750 trax of mostly whole albums loaded into the list) jun 9 11pm: all of this is absurd + again at the cartoon-smile-heart-warmth point of evening. time to sleep jun 8 1am: were i to try compress a certain kinda gratitude in few enough words.. |~~☆~~~☆~☆~~~~~~☆~~☆~~ | uve touched the minds & | hearts of many with what | u do & i hope u remember | that from time to time & | never forget 4 too long |~~~☆~~~☆~~~~☆~~~☆~~♡~ most wildly radiant 'neurodivergent special interest on a music artist' arc ive ever had. ive had them be increasingly radiant one after the other thruout the past... 15 years. i dont know what would even be next, i dont think it can get more radiant than this, would have to be some paradigm shift in how my brain latches to things to mainline-special-interest degree. but in the meantime it's silly fun, aside from the endless roast from the album wait, and the endless gratitude for particularly cartoon smile almost searing me from within sometimes... need to pour that into a purely-physical zinelike thing. for my own self for heartfelt documenting purposes... itll be so over for me if the album touches my heart even 20% as much as 'smile has jun 2: 8pm, sunny i proceeded to have a whole 3-hour or so nap after that previous blurb... sleepyhead sunday. sometimes i may be stupid -- 3pm, rainy :-) trying to do things (maybe) or perhaps rest & also last night i fell asleep to cartoon smile, ended up sleeping 10-11 hours low on milk so have to head out for that sometime (how absurd) may 28: for some reason felt really out of service and sad yesterday evening. i need to set a bit of time aside to meal plan, starting to struggle with that a lot which might not be a good sign. at least it's sunny. i think i'll manage. ought to buy some fresh stuff from the grocery store after work. may 16: manual kick scooter befriending log: lowkey ate shit downhill (chickened out but was already going TOO FAST TO TRULY STOP), now both my knees and one of my palms are scratched up :-D but all cleaned n wound-dressed up so it's all good. the knees are still stinging even though it was like 1.5 hours ago now i think. bless grocery stores with free-of-charge toilets may 10: listening to certain things (well, cartoon smile anyway) on the ol' mp3 player feels special. even having it on pause hoverin over the stuff feels special, theres this little hiss it emits thru the earbuds. sometimes i dont want to listen to stuff thru my phone, feels too proverbially-heavy with i'm not even sure what. (plus the fact i use lastfm smh haha, maybe mainly feels proverbially-heavy for that reason. smth smth become untraceable) may 07: [snip] also what the hell welcome to special fish @coyburn haha (what-the-hell in a pleasant surprise of a familiar face way) also, re @ altmilan writing about rechargeable batteries - making me think about how i have both a battery tester (takes energy for displaying the voltage from the tested battery which is nice) and reliable access to a discard battery bin (working at a shop that has one). 2nd-hand batteries a fun thing to dabble in cos a decent few have enough charge left in them (though i have a shy few rechargeable AA + AAA ones, 4 + 4) (got the battery tester idea after i had a couple customers come in one day a longer while back w/ a request of if they can rummage thru the bin a bit w a tester to salvage a few. i, being the way i am, and that day, having been unlikely to have much customer-activity, said yeah why not, while mentally taking note) i have this old old mp3 player that runs off a single AAA battery and its such a charming little thing. apacer au231. 1 gb (w/ sd card slot i dont use). simple. lightweight. had it dormant for years but started using it more from 2022 onward. i've been thinking of crafting a little bespoke carrycase for it w/ pockets for spare batteries may 03 '24: weather been nice, even tho wind chilly. been in a rly subtractive mood online lately --- little relic from earlier feb 23 '22: currently half to 3am, listening thru a mix (2nd in an instalment of like 3 (well, or more if i look into the others by the artist aahahaha) but ill have to leave the rest for later fr) --- feb 27 '24 addition: this was such a time. i was on workbreak, was supposed to see drain gang in warsaw that week but they postponed it (again -.-) and i got the full kindling of the oli xl special interest instead..

things found on the ground

  • pencil
  • alcohol shopping list
  • meat shopping list
  • 3 regular shopping lists
  • rechargeable vape with some juice left; single-use vape
  • barely used sample of moschino toy 2 pearl
  • half-finished pack of potato chips
  • shattered-screen phone, and stray wireless earbuds case not much distance away (left those be)
  • left-atop-trash-can special: open pack of seaweed chips
  • trash (the usual)
  • grass & other plants :-) (leaving these be)
  • [maybe i will remember, or find, more]

display names i've gone for in a particular place as of late

  • persistent deep soup creatrue
  • piping hot liquid sunshine
  • undrinkably hot juice dispenser
  • extra large sunflower oil
  • apples in tiny pond
  • bug constellation
  • rogue pintruder server enhancer
  • typo slop
  • entirely leafbare apple tree

on one section of my bedroom wall

  • a painting ("the clown of noster hill 9am" or i think it was the 9am) by daisy emily warne aka babii
  • printout of march 2022 ig dm screenshot of oli xl thanking me again for the paper crane i'd given. w pic of the crane atop cd pile incl a copy of his debut on very top (need!!!!!)
  • 4 prints by sam hensley, all featuring creamthing (a character of theirs); 2 prints by onenhillion, one of ocean view, one of cloud view
  • (silkscreen) print by fatima susanna, of a dog licking crumbs off a muffin paper, with text in estonian translating to "there were crumbs left on your muffin paper"
  • 2 trance party posters, one from tp:live (oct '23; neon pink; "did you remember to wish yourself happy birthday?"), one from tp:pearl (apr '24; shiny beige; with a pearl)
  • printout of a bitmap pic by a friend of mine of kutchipatchi smoking a comically large cigarette
  • pencil doodle of me from uni and ink doodle of a monkey both by my bestie
  • patreon gift drawing from moldspace (i think?), of a dragon
  • cutout from someplace of a 1997 navitrolla drawing, of a blue hedgehog looking for a friend
  • stray painting of пир (label) logo by moa pillar, on cardboard used for reinforcing a parcel
  • little gouache painting of clouds on cardstock by myself
  • the 3 regular found shopping lists

on the ol' mp3 player

  • oli xl: whole discography (incl deep cuts, unreleases) (excl heretic, power over death) + 3 edits by oli + 4 edits of oli
  • animal crossing new horizons 2am (regular) | evian christ: nobody else
  • patrick wolf: land's end (the towans split separate) | ingrate: fifths + there is.. | rezzett: tarang
  • mechatok: presence hotel | vegyn: big fun never ending nightmare + hearted typos | bloodidol: sometimes
  • nublu: kastehein | jaak joala: kas suudan sind aidata | earth, wind & fire: september
  • einár: psykos | esp: rolling + lyla | nation: not the only one
  • kid cudi: copernicus landing | dj edwl: montagem - pros talibã | tohji: super ocean man
  • iglooghost: the entirety of tidal memory exo
  • ouri: blueprints of us single + 3 songs off frame of a fauna [odd or god, chains, shape of it] + twin + shape of it harp version
  • more oli xl: some shit i shouldn't even have

delights

  • 03/03/24: sunny day, and aurora
  • 04/03: fully noticing its no longer entirely dark when walking home after a full workshift
  • 05/03: small chunk of moss on ground looked slug-shaped on a split second glance
  • 06/03: frozen ground looking sparkly in the sun
  • 07/03: early day off for a long weekend
  • 08/03: i guess the overcast sky is very nice for a change. less stark less overwhelming sensorily
  • 11/03: duck chatter
  • 25/03: other birds' chatter
  • 07/05: head feels relatively empty in some blissful way. not much actively weighing it down in unpleasant ways
  • 31/05: lovely dusk skies with clouds the past few days

special midsummer times

  • 2019: t came to visit my home/parents' as escape, had nice hangouts. i have pics of my cat on her lap
  • 2020: went with t & l & l's friend (and his 2 cats) & t's lithuanian friend to stay at l's aunt's place in the countryside up north
  • 2021: visited best friend's parents' place, with the parents present. my first and still only time seeing a lightning bug :-)
  • 2022: was going to see drain gang in warsaw but they postponed, ended up a cute hangout in cool airbnb with the lot i was gonna go to the show with
  • 2023: dropped by to hang with l a bit in one of her go-to bars after her uni graduation after my workday, was a cute day in general
  • 2024: visiting best friend's parents' place, with the parents partly absent partly present. had nice times

some list of links

  • https://www.are.na/ian-mcdonald/an-idea-for-a-website
  • https://riquiqui.arca1000000.com ~ riquiquí endless
  • https://guest.garden/sneek ~ since march 12 2021
  • https://olixl.bandcamp.com/track/cartoon-smile ~ soundtrack of the very core of my being (i really mean it; at least in these days i.e. since early '22)

url-s i relatively frequently type out off the top of my head

  • *that arent socialmedia-y or my own or this anyway
  • meteo.physic.ut.ee
  • x-l.love (and then usually skyscanner.net if oli has added some possibly catchable set-date to there hahaha)
  • glosbe.com/en/et/word to translate (or et/en or ru/en; replacing 'word' w any word)
  • ilmateenistus.ee
  • lightningmaps.org (if it's thundery)